MARITIME CHRONICLES

PORT SECTOR IN COLOMBIA

By: EMPRESA MULTIMODAL SAS

Maritime transportation is a fundamental tool for globalization, foreign trade and the supply chain of countries. For this reason, the port system is a fundamental component for commercial activities between economies, since it allows the development of maritime transportation operations in a continuous and efficient manner.

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IN PORTS

By: Tatiana Rabat. Project and Development Management. Grupo Puerto de Cartagena

Sustainability is the ability to continue a given behavior indefinitely. Hence the concept of environmental sustainability as the conservation and protection of the environment indefinitely.

According to the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development in 1984, environmental sustainability consists of acting in a way that ensures that future generations will have sufficient resources available to have the same quality of life, or better, than present generations.

ADAPTABILITY, A KEY FACTOR IN THE MARITIME INDUSTRY

By: Archibald Clark. Marine Project Manager and Naval Constructor

I started my career as an apprentice in a well-known shipyard on the River Clyde in Scotland in the early sixties. In these days, the Shipbuilding Industry in the United Kingdom was booming with a great future for the industry.