Rod James

This year, Europe’s largest technology conference, Web Summit, came to Lisbon. Some of the loudest buzz this year was around the fintech stage Moneyconf, where CEO saw three leading lights in the European venture capital business discuss the current state of play.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is working on making Elon Musk’s Hyperloop dream a reality. Through the ‘Innovation Train’ project, it is sharing some of its other innovative ideas with Deutsche Bahn. Rod James takes a look.

In October 2015, the use of a drone to monitor railway lines in New Mexico represented a significant leap forward for the industry.

In late 2015, Carnival Corporation celebrated the opening of its new Amber Cove cruise port in the Dominican Republic, marking a growing trend for lines to sink serious capital into port development. What constitutes the right deal, how do you spread the risk and what is the best way to get the local population on board?

The potential of the Chinese market has cruise operators salivating, but their hunger is mixed with no small degree of trepidation.

A new class of synthetic compounds called antimicrobial lipopeptides, or AMLPs, could represent a real alternative to traditional antibiotics.