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Global freight to 'lift fuel prices'
News, Published on 02/04/2024
» Global trade flows, which showed signs of acceleration at the start of 2024, indicate a recovery from the late 2022 slump in major industrial economies, likely boosting demand for transport fuels such as diesel.
Retailers can manage Red Sea shipping delays
News, Published on 13/01/2024
» Just when it looked like inflation's grip on consumers was easing, another obstacle has emerged for both retailers and central bankers: difficulty accessing the Suez Canal.
Braving hurdles for green transport
News, Sumet Ongkittikul, Published on 10/01/2024
» 'Match your words with your actions." That was the message from teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg when she sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 2019 instead of flying to attend the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York.
Trucks, haze and action
Oped, Editorial, Published on 10/03/2023
» The high levels of PM2.5 air pollution seen this month revive the question of what national and local governments could have done but failed to do. Within this, the proposed relocation of Bangkok Port out of the capital city -- part of the national master plan to reduce PM2.5 -- attracted media attention.
All must help save energy
News, Editorial, Published on 13/06/2022
» The Russia-Ukraine military conflict has given rise to surging energy prices worldwide with the price of oil now at its highest level in almost 14 years.
Shipping is worse than aviation
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/03/2021
» 'We're waiting on food goods like coconut milk and syrups, some spare parts for motors, we've got some fork lift trucks, some Amazon goods on there, all sorts," said Steve Parks of Seaport Freight Services in England, who is awaiting twenty of the 18,300 containers aboard the Ever Given. Which of those things cannot be sourced from somewhere closer than Asia?
The virus will make everything you hate about flying worse
Published on 20/07/2020
» SYDNEY: Last month, my wife and I planned our first holiday in six months. It was a hectic experience. Borders between most Australian states had been closed since the start of the coronavirus lockdown. We’d been hoping to fly three hours to the tropical resort town of Cairns in northeastern Queensland state, to escape the Sydney winter and holiday with friends.
Technology can drive green growth in Mekong region
News, Published on 01/02/2018
» In the last 20 years, rapid economic growth in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) has reduced poverty and brought prosperity to many of its 420 million people.
The myth of a fossil fuel phase-out
News, Samuele Furfari, Published on 19/12/2017
» How the world uses energy is a hot topic for a warming planet, and fears of pollution and resource strain have produced a virtual arms race of energy-efficiency strategies. From the European Union (EU) to China, economies are vowing to reduce their energy intensity with the help of technological innovations and legislative changes.
The Bangkok type
Life, Published on 20/11/2017
» There was something distinctly cinematic about my visits to William Warren's residence over the years. He always waited in near darkness in the screened porch off his living room. As I entered his Sukhumvit home, which was surrounded by lush gardens and teeming with antiques, a gravelly but distinctly welcoming "hello" would put me at ease. Only then would I see him in the dim light, holding a cigarette or tumbler (a stiff gin and tonic or whiskey soda), sitting completely composed.