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Port of Vysotsk: 12.48 mln tn handled in I-IX 2016 (-5.2% yoy)
Port of Vysotsk: 12.48 mln tn handled in I-IX 2016 (-5.2% yoy)
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BTJ Highlights & current issue

BTJ 2/20 We're pleased to announce that the 2/20 issue is ready and - as always - packed with great reads.
BTJ 2/20 - Report: Baltic port market in 2019 Hold your horses! While at first glance it might appear that the regional port market struck yet another record - having advanced by 1.1% year-on-year to a total of almost 952.58 million tonnes in 2019 - there is one all caps, glaring, and extremely concerning caveat, namely the unavailability of hard data from at least a portion of the statistical offices.
BTJ 2/20 - Economy: The scale of investment needed to decarbonize international shipping. Getting to Zero Coalition's Insight Brief on the cost of making sea transports emission-free To make the decarbonization of the maritime shipping sector successful, the coming three decades will need to see a fundamental shift towards zero carbon energy sources.
BTJ 2/20 - Maritime: A curveball. The to-date impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the Baltic ferry business Once the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is, hopefully, overcome, it'll be synonymous with a black swan, an unexpected force majeure event that rolls through everything like a thunderstorm, leaving virtually none negatively unaffected.
BTJ 2/20 - Legal: Green loans by the book. How to embed environmental care in ship financing The IMO 0.5% sulphur cap is now in force globally, while the Poseidon Principles, a banking code aimed at integrating climate considerations into lending decisions, have been widely adopted by many of the major ship finance banks.
BTJ 2/20 - Legal: COVID-19 and force majeure. Examining the key elements of lodging/defending a delay claim Vessels in quarantine, both empty and laden containers with restrictions on movement stuck in terminals, no boxes available on the market, country border lockdowns.
BTJ 2/20 - Sustainability: Do we have a deal? The impact of the European Green Deal on transport & logistics Transport represents almost a quarter of Europe's greenhouse gas emissions and is one of the main causes of air pollution in cities.
BTJ 2/20 - Sustainability: Data-driven sustainability. CO2 offsetting for a climate-friendly transport sector A new tool provides the commercial vehicle sector with new means to fight climate change. Companies can track the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted by their vehicle fleet and then offset these emissions through the Swiss foundation myclimate.
BTJ 2/20 - Sustainability: Three steps to sustainability. Sweden's Triple F research & innovation programme Triple F, a research & innovation (R&I) programme of the Swedish Transport Administration, has been launched to aid Sweden's transport industry in its transition towards fossil-free operations.
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Transport miscellany

Rostock celebrates - twice! The Hanseatic City of Rostock has at least two reasons to party this year - though because of the coronavirus pandemic, official celebrations will most likely be postponed or scrapped altogether, which is a real shame as all-day performances were planned.
Gone are the horses, gone are the aeroplanes (well, sort of) The first-ever meeting between the world's first all-metal airliner (Junkers F13) and horse railcars just couldn't happen in a different spot than the East Frisian Islands (in the past and today a popular place to unwind), equipped in the 19th century with narrow-gauge railways and air-linked with Berlin in the 1920s through the so-called Bädeluftverkehr (bathing air transport).
The luckiest After 18 years, the luckiest ship used for trade between Greenland and Denmark, Nordlyset ("the northern light"), made its way back onto a stamp.
"Geography doesn't matter anymore" To commemorate the 200th anniversary of discovering Antarctica - by the Estonian-born Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev - Kersti Kaljulaid, President of the Republic of Estonia, went southbound, yet not on a tourist-like, handshake, nice views jaunt but a full-blown state business trip.
150th birthday of Davies Turner The London-headquartered freight forwarder has made it to our pages several times, specifically into the Made in China news section as the company has organised its own multimodal services linking the UK with China.
Safety first? Between 1929 and 1935, North German Lloyd's ships Bremen and Europa carried Luft-Hansa's floatplanes.
"Amicable marriage of convenience" The year 2020 brings another momentous anniversary - that of the creation of Hapag-Lloyd, one of today's container shipping heavyweights.
When shipping meets literature The depicted metalwork from 1905 adorns the former HQ of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Cracow, some 500 km away from the Polish shores of the Baltic Sea.
Roll'n'park Versatile as they are in regards to their core use, ships can also serve as parking spaces, to which a growing number of ships is living proof.
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RailFreight Summit 2020 PL/Poznań
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ITS Central Eastern Congress RU/Kazan
InnoTrans 2020 DE/Berlin
Arctic Shipping Europe FI/Helsinki
Maritime Transport Efficiency Conference​ CH/Geneva
Envirotech for Shipping Forum 2020 NL/Rotterdam
Ferry Shipping Summit 2020 NL/Amsterdam
35th International Gas Professionals Meeting HR/Opatija
CrewConnect Europe NL/Amsterdam
Multimodal 2021 UK/Birmingham
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