Zita Tallat-Kelpšaitė is an artist, a painter, a book writer and publisher of an international business magazine, who lived and worked in Klaipėda for the past 45 years.
Currently she has settled in Šventoji, in the neighbourhood of wind-blown sand dunes, blossoming pines and stormy sea.

A SLOWING of import volumes into North Europe has done little to mitigate congestion at hub ports in the region, with full container yards and labour shortages hampering operations across terminals, warehouses, and trucking services, resulting in lengthening ship delays.

The shipping industry is facing its own version of 'long COVID' says INTERCARGO, following warnings received from members.

HONG Kong's exports surprisingly improved slightly in April, though trade with China continued to be hit as the country's Covid restrictions intensified and disrupted trade, reports Bloomberg.

Iran has relocated the two Greek tankers it seized last week to the port of Bandar Abbas, where they have been impounded. The crew have "not been detained" and are being "protected," Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization said in a statement Saturday. Nine Greek nationals are among the two ships' crews.

Australians will bear yet another blow to their cost of living in July when electricity prices will surge up to 18 percent, which amounts to over $180 per year in some cases.

The European Union is in talks with Israel over a plan to import Israeli natural gas, helping Europe in its project to wean itself off of Russian supplies.

The U.S. Coast Guard is operating forward in the Pacific Islands for the purpose of maintaining an American presence and building law-enforcement partnerships with regional governments. With capable Coast Guard cutter crews in the area, U.S. government personnel are becoming a familiar sight in the EEZs of under-resourced Pacific island nations.

May 27, 2022, Piraeus, Greece. Palau International Ship Registry (PISR), the world's leading digital Registry, has announced the appointment of Captain Georgios Tsouris as its Chief Operating Officer.

As two more workers die in an enclosed space onboard a ship, InterManager has hit out at the shipping industry's inadequate reporting of serious and fatal accidents.

THE world's biggest container port, Shanghai, posted an 82.4 per cent year on year increase in April throughput to 3.08 million TEU, according to the Ministry of Transport (MOT), reported Beijing state media.

THE Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) has overtaken its 2M partner Maersk as the largest carrier on the Asia-Europe route in terms of tonnage, according to Alphaliner.

Nor-Shipping has confirmed that almost half of the available exhibition space at its Lillestrøm base has already been booked for its 2023 programme, taking place 6-9 June. The news, coming only a month after the 2022 show in April, puts next year's 'early bird' sales ahead of Nor-Shipping 2019 (the most popular event in the exhibition's history).

Customs clearance solutions specialists Clarksons Port Services (CPS), has appointed Graham Cross as business development manager in a newly-created role as its Customs and Freight team continues to grow.

At the first in-person leaders’ summit of the Quad in Washington in September last year, the four member countries came forward with an ambitious space agenda. A working group was giving the task of advancing a number of key strategic areas, including the exchange of satellite data with the ambition to “protect the earth and its waters."