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The International Transport Forum OECD issued a discussion paper analyzing key characteristics and challenges with respect to the Port of Buenos Aires, consisting the main cargo entry point for the province of Buenos Aires, where most of Argentina’s population, economic activity and manufacturing activity is concentrated. 

In its review of maritime transport, UNCTAD presented two trends for ports. Namely, cargo-handling activity and throughput in global ports, which reflected a recovery in the global economy and a rebound in trade volumes that boosted shipping demand and seaborne trade in 2017, showed overall improvement and promising trends.

IACS published 9 of its 12 recommendations on cyber safety, in order to facilitate the delivery of cyber resilient ships, in order to maintain their resilient throughout their working lives. The first report recommended procedures for software maintenance of shipboard equipment and systems. The second one focuses on control of software dependent systems.

US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement issued a safety alert summarizing its findings and recommendations from a recent risk-based Inspection. BSEE’s team of inspectors and engineers developed several recommendations from inspection findings to reduce risks associated with fired vessels.

UNCTAD published its Review of Maritime Transport for 2018. According to the report, global maritime trade is doing well, but downside risks such as increased inward-looking policies and the rise of trade protectionism are still putting pressure on the outlook.

IACS published 9 of its 12 recommendations on cyber safety, in order to enable the delivery of cyber resilient ships whose resilience can be maintained throughout their working lives. The first report recommends procedures for software maintenance of shipboard equipment and systems.

In 2017, about a total of 800,000 volunteers in more that 100 countries gathered and collectively removed more than 20 million pieces of trash from beaches and waterways worldwide. The weight of the total trash collected was equal to 812 cruise ship anchors.

Representatives from major global brands and maritime companies have developed a set of best practices for the maritime industry to limit the volume of counterfeits shipped around the globe through checks on their customers and supply chains. The new document covers due diligence recommendations.

A new NOAA research looks at the devastating 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. It notes that if similar weather conditions happen in the future, it's likely the number of major hurricanes to increase by two in a similar active year at the end of century. Climate warming would be the cause of this.

UNCTAD released its Trade and Development Report 2018 noting that the pressures are building around escalating tariffs. This affects financial flows, but behind these threats to global stability is a wider failure to address the inequities and imbalances. In addition, the growing indebtedness is closely linked to inequality.