Despite gender equality progress being made in many male-dominated fields, some professions like longshoring are still difficult for women to break into.
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A modern port raises Puntland’s stake within the fragmented political landscape of Somalia and prevents traders from seeking alternatives.
The maritime and port industries are integrating climate change into their business models and introducing different adaptive measures.
Scheduled strikes by UK port workers will add to the challenges plaguing the UK supply chain.
Approximately 8,000 merchant vessels travel the St. Lawrence each year. Its ports have become the catalysts that link trade, development and industrial innovation.
Exporters and importers alike are facing more bureaucracy as the full effect of many of the Brexit changes come into effect.
The world needs robust supply chains that are founded on sustainability, collaboration, trust, transparency, visibility and diversification of supply.
All the extra profits that shipping companies have made from high freight rates should be put to good use.
The Biden administration is proposing a big increase in offshore wind power. A former state official explains how regulators find the best sites and balance competing interests.
An expert on global supply chains explains why shortages of many products have persisted throughout the pandemic.
Corruption and fraud make a few rich households richer. But the already poor and low-skilled lose their jobs and become poorer.
To rebuild lost credibility, the South African government can start by listening to social partners and the business sector and implementing less financially costly policies
Pandemic chaos has driven the cost of shipping through the roof.
The lasting problems of infrastructure aren’t of need or construction, but of overbuilding, delayed costs and the challenges of thinking ahead.
Sri Lanka is still grappling with the consequences of the cargo ship fire, which dumped tonnes of plastic and hazardous chemicals into the ocean.
To increase renewable energy use, the Biden administration wants the US to go from seven offshore wind turbines today to enough to power 10 million homes within a decade.
China’s signature foreign policy is controversial for lots of reasons. But the environmental damage potentially wrought by the project has received scant attention.
But they may not bring all the economic benefits that their proponents suggest.
In 1917, two ships collided in the port of Halifax, resulting in an explosion similar to the Aug. 4 blast in Beirut. Port explosions have devastating effects far beyond the site of the actual blast.
Abandoned containers of hazardous goods are found regularly in ports.
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Maritime Logistics Expert, Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics (CSCL), Deakin University
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Lecturer in Maritime Economics, University of Plymouth
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Professeur émérite de géographie, Université de Montréal
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Faculty, Graduate Program on the Environment, Evergreen State College
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Lecturer in Law, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, School of Public Policy, Oregon State University
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Associate Dean, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
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Director, Institute for Supply Chain and Logistics, Victoria University
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Professeur de Logistique, CESIT - Centre d'Excellence Supply Chain, Kedge Business School
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Professor of Mediterranean History, University of Cambridge
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, Director of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emerita Rowe School of Business, Dalhousie University