MARITIME CHRONICLES
MARITIME-PORT OPERATIONS IN NAVIGABLE CHANNELS OVER RIVERS IN COLOMBIA
The ports that operate in navigable channels on rivers, unlike the purely maritime ones, require actions that involve additional technological, human and physical resources due to the sequential alteration caused by river fluctuations, which affect the current, flow, sedimentation and therefore the depth, sometimes affecting navigability in general.
MARITIME SINGLE WINDOW, MORE THAN A COMMITMENT TO 2024
January 1, 2024 will be a very important date for trade facilitation, since the amendments to the Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic 1965, as amended, known internationally as Convention FAL-65, will come into force, which makes the Maritime Single Windows mandatory in all ports worldwide.
ELECTROFUELS: DECARBONIZATION OF MARITIME TRANSPORT
Nowadays most of the ships in the world are propelled by diesel engines powered by liquid fuel, the so-called "marine diesel oil". Therefore, in the search for alternative solutions to decarbonize the oceans, the race has begun to find clean alternative fuels that can replace the existing ones.
SOLAS 1974: INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE SAFETY OF LIFE AT SEA
Among all the international conventions relating to maritime safety, the most important is undoubtedly the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS).