World Economic Forum (WEF) Archives - Maritime Shipping News

Fears grow that stranded crew numbers will return to 2020 levels

6 May 2021

Eleven industry figures shared their concerns that Covid-19 variants could see crew numbers trapped on board ships beyond the end of their contracts soar to peak levels seen in September 2020 when around 400,000 crew were unable to be repatriated.

As a result the UN leaders and others have developed a Human Rights Due Diligence Tool that will see those operating within the supply chain, but particularly owners and charterers, will be able to make sure individual seafarers rights and the...

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Carriers need to build confidence in seafreight to win pharma over

16 April 2021

Confidence in the ocean supply chain is low and for the movement of vaccines by sea there will need to be an improvement in the reliability and visibility of the logistics system.

Speaking at the Containing Covid-19 conference, jointly organised by Container News and Cool Logistics, Michael Culme-Seymour, Consultant, World Economic Forum (WEF) and VP & managing director APAC, Roambee, believes that as Covax and UNICEF are rolling out millions of doses of vaccine, and while they are doing a great...

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Maritime set to help vaccinate the world

10 April 2021

Dominating the past year’s news has been the pandemic, mainly about the social distancing and lock-down regimes in various countries, but also the heralded way out of the Covid nightmare has been the development of vaccines that will mitigate the viral effects.

Those vaccines were delivered in record time and have been disseminated amongst the populations of a few countries, either by truck directly from the manufacturing centres or by air for speed of delivery. This has been particularly true...

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Industry innovators call for port action on digitalisation

16 March 2021

Ensuring the future competitiveness of the maritime industry in post-pandemic times will require making it more efficient, predictable, sustainable, and resilient. This implies a change in the recipe for capital creation of involved actors and a change in mindset to overcome industry existing legacy systems and silo-thinking. Enhanced collaboration and innovation are crucial to achieve this.

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Container shipping industry supports Covid-19 vaccine distribution

23 December 2020

Major shipping lines, container ports and operators have signed a charter with the World Economic Forum (WEF) and UNICEF to assist with the Covid-19 vaccine distribution.

Maersk, MSC, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, the Port of Antwerp and DP World are among the 18 shipping, airlines and logistics companies which have participated in an innovative collaboration to support the globally inclusive, safe and sustainable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines.

“We will focus our best efforts as a strong collective,...

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World Economic Forum: Dutch have best infrastructure in Europe

21 October 2019

The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently presented the Global Competitiveness Report 2019. The Netherlands once again holds first place in Europe when it comes to the quality of its transport infrastructure. In this year’s edition, the Dutch also top the European board when it comes to economic competitiveness.

The WEF survey scores countries on 103 criteria to determine the relative competitiveness of their economy. In the most recent ranking, the Netherlands has overtaken Switzerland and...

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