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Direct Relief Navigates Medical Aid to Yemen and Sudan Through Red Sea Shipping Attacks and Sudan’s Civil War

3BL Media

As Yemen’s Houthi rebels continue attacking ships in the Red Sea, many of the world’s shippers are avoiding the crucial cargo route and going nowhere near Yemen. While shipping continues through the Red Sea, options have diminished and costs have risen sharply as insurers demand steep premiums for covering ships that pass near Yemen.

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Meet James Jackson - ek? Solutions’ Boutique Retreat Portfolio Manager

3BL Media

This is a quick read which enables us to learn a little more about James and why ekō Solutions is rapidly expanding its boutique up-cycled shipping container vacation rental division. We have created vacation rental communities using “double-recycled” shipping containers which are cool, sleek, modern and really comfortable.

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From the Book of Common Prayer

Caux Round Table

We have arrived at an age of irrepressible globalism, thanks to technologies created by the private sector and sold for a profit, including not only television and cell phones, but also aircraft and waterborne shipping containers. The response to her passing gives evidence of a moral sense in most of us, whoever we are and wherever we live.

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Celebrating the International Day of Education - How DP World Is Helping Prepare the Next Generation

3BL Media

When you think of a logistics leader like DP World, you probably imagine shipping containers and cranes not classrooms and scholarships. In Suriname, the company partnered with COSCO Shipping Lines to renovate the media library at OS Lobatoschool near the Jules Sedney Terminal in Paramaribo.

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DBS Sets Decarbonization Targets for Lending Book in Key Emissions Intensive Sectors

ESG Today

DBS’ new commitments include decarbonization targets for seven sectors – Power, Oil & Gas, Automotive, Aviation, Shipping, Steel, and Real Estate – and ESG data coverage targets to receive emissions reporting information from clients for the Food & Agribusiness and Chemicals sectors.

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Deutsche Bank Ties Senior Exec Compensation to Loan Book Decarbonization Goals

ESG Today

Deutsche Bank has set financed emissions reduction targets for seven carbon-intensive sectors, including oil and gas, power generation, automotive, and steel, as well as new sectors announced in October 2023 with the release of the bank’s initial Transition Plan , including coal mining, cement and shipping.

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The promise and peril of digital urban mobility

Corporate Knights

With Google’s online mapping function, commuters could plot the best way to get from A to B and then, through the app, procure or book the transportation modes that fit the route and the users’ preferences. Reprinted with permission from Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias (Coach House Books, 2022). .