UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°88 - Fourth Quarter 2020

 

UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°88 - Fourth Quarter 2020

 

New: UNCTAD Trade Logistics on twitter - Follow us! View this email in your browser UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°88 - Fourth Quarter 2020   Information Sharing Communities for Digitally Enabled Supply Chain Visibility Mikael Lind et al.   Read more   Digital trade facilitation for women cross-border traders Sijia Sun and Alexandre Larouche-Maltais   Read more Sail cargo: Charting a new path for emission-free shipping? Christiaan De Beukelaer   Read more   Vers une nouvelle hiérarchisation portuaire ouest-méditerranéenne dans l’ère de la COVID? Yann Alix, Nicolas Montier et Olivier Faury   Read more Too large to be missed: how fleet size and harmful subsidies undermine fish stocks sustainability David Vivas-Eugui and Claudia Contreras   Read more   Maritime statistics updates   1) Revamped country maritime profiles with new datasets introduced in 2019 and 2020 2) Connectivity data - 2020/Q3 Country Liner Shipping Connectivity Index (Country LSCI) Port Liner Shipping Connectivity Index (Port LSCI) 3) Semi-annual port calls data - 2020/S1 Time spent in ports, vessel age & size Number of port calls 4) Share of the world merchant fleet value (2020) By flag of registration By country of beneficial ownership     Further reading: publications, proceedings and other resources   Review of Maritime Transport 2020. UNCTAD UNCTAD’s Review of Maritime Transport 2020: highlights and figures on: Africa  ǀ  Latin America and the Caribbean  ǀ  Asia and the Pacific COVID-19 and maritime transport: Impact and responses. UNCTAD Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Trade and Development: Transitioning to a New Normal. UNCTAD UNCTAD e-Handbook of Statistics 2020 - Maritime Factsheets: World seaborne trade ǀ Merchant fleet ǀ Maritime transport indicators Case Studies from the TrainForTrade Port Management Programme English-speaking Network. UNCTAD Emissions Gap Report 2020. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) OECD Policy Responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19): Getting goods across borders in times of COVID-19. OECD Ocean Freight Market Update - December 2020. DHL Global Forwarding COVID-19 Impact on the Road Transport Industry - Update: November 2020. International Road Transport Union (IRU)  Position paper: "A global framework on the governance of transport data". IRU Position paper: "COVID-19 call for action to governments". IRU Revitalising Multilateralism: Pragmatic Ideas for the New WTO Director-General. By: Simon J. Evenett and Richard Baldwin Existential questions for globalisation remain. By Alex Wood. MarineTraffic Blog ‘Rules as data’ – the 21st century answer for trade facilitation? By Craig Atkinson Maritime Informatics. Editors: Mikael Lind, Michalis Michaelides, Robert Ward and Richard Thomas Watson Maritime Economics & Logistics (Volume 22, Issue 4, December 2020) Maritime Policy & Management (Volume 47, 2020, Issue 8) UNCTAD Unpacks Podcast with Jan Hoffmann: "COVID-19 and maritime trade and transport: Impact and Responses" Webinar replay: IMO Presentation on New Carbon Emission Reduction Measures for World Fleet Event replay: Online launch of the UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport 2020     For your agenda   29 June–2 July 2021, Rotterdam. Conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), on the theme: Accelerating Transitions 3-8 October 2021. Bridgetown, Barbados. Fifteenth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD 15) 4-5 October 2021, Geneva. Maritime Transport Efficiency Conference     In the news   COVID-19 drives large international trade declines in 2020. UNCTAD News, 9 December UN calls for seafarers to be designated as key workers to resolve crew change crisis. Splash 247, 2 December WTO maps out trade issues related to COVID-19 vaccine rollout. WTO News, 20 November Pandemic cuts global maritime trade, transforms industry – new UNCTAD Report. UNCTAD News, 12 November Global trade shows frail recovery in third quarter, but outlook remains uncertain. UNCTAD News, 21 October