For Europe, maritime transport has been a catalyst for economic development and prosperity throughout its history. Maritime Transport enables trade and contacts between all European nations. It ensures the security of supply of energy, food and commodities and provides the main vehicle for European imports and exports to the rest of the world. Almost 90% of the EU’s external freight trade is seaborne. Short sea shipping represents one third of intra-EU exchanges in terms of ton-kilometers. Ensuring a good quality of life on Europe’s islands and in peripheral maritime regions depends on good maritime transport
The Canadian icebreaker CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent (USGS)
Icebreakers play many important roles both above and below the Arctic Circle. With their double hulls, rounded bows made of high strength steel and sloping stems for maneuverability, icebreakers are capable of breaking through ice as thick as three metres. With 90 percent of global consumer goods transported by ships, and with a vast amount of Canada’s waters impeded by ice up to ten months of the year, the country’s icebreaker fleet guides the movement of marine traffic through ice. They ensure that most Canadian ports are open for business year-round and enable “an otherwise ice-choked economy.” Icebreakers also provide search and rescue services such as assisting distressed vessels, contribute to safeguarding
Here Inchcape Shipping Services explains how it combines a physical network with virtual transparency to solve problems, unite families and safely switch seafarers worldwide.
“Complexity and cost.”
Feizel Mohammed doesn’t waste words.
Speaking over a Teams link from his base in Singapore he doesn’t have the time to. Inchcape’s Global Sector Head, Ship & Crew Managers, has a busy evening at the office ahead and, by his reckoning, won’t be home with his
Los rentas salariales tienen que volver a situarse en línea con las europeas y eso solo se hace aumentando el Salario Mínimo.
La ministra de Trabajo, Yolanda Díaz con los agentes sociales. (Imagen de archivo)
15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2020, 9:45
No hay un año en el que, llegando estas fechas, no salte la discusión de si hay que subir el salario mínimo. El gráfico que ilustra este artículo no puede ser más claro: el incremento del excedente empresarial no guarda ninguna relación con el comportamiento habido en la Unión Europea y en la Zona Euro. En 1999 se parte de una posición muy similar. En España y en la Unión Europea el excedente empresarial supone el 46,2% de la renta repartida,
Con la conferencia titulada Líneas generales de la reforma del Texto Refundido de la Ley de Puertos del Estado y de la Marina Mercante y de la Ley de Navegación Marítima, el Clúster Marítimo Español (CME) cierra su ciclo de jornadas por este año, tratando un tema de gran importancia y repercusión para la actividad marítima como supone esta reforma legislativa. Para ello se invitó a Julio