MARITIME CHRONICLES
PORT SECTOR IN COLOMBIA
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
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
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.
GLOBAL DISRUPTIONS AND THEIR EFFECTS: CAUTION AND FUTURE OPTIMISM IN LATIN AMERICA FOR 2022
A few months after COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020; the world soon realized the enormous impact that the health crisis would have in global economy, especially on sectors such as logistics & port activity, engine -until before the emergence of the Coronavirus - of the seething and endless exchange of goods between countries.