Polish-Finnish satellite company ICEYE has been contracted by NASA to provide synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data for 5-year Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program. Since 2020, CSDA has been identifying, evaluating, and acquiring data from commercial sources, including ICEYE satellites, to support scientific research, analysis and application objectives of NASA’s Earth Science Division. Unlike traditional…
Poland is facing dynamic demographic changes that will shape the future of the market of senior housing and accompanying private long-term care services. With an ageing population and changing attitudes to elderly care, the sector is gaining increasing investor interest. During the event “Senior Living & Care Market in Poland”, co-organised by CMS in Poland,…
Regardless of economic conditions, premium real estate, in the long term, is the safest and most profitable form of capital investment. Experienced investors choose Polish cities with the highest growth potential, but they are increasingly expanding their portfolios to include foreign properties as well. Wrocław, recognized as one of the best places to live in…
In 2023, over 90% of Polish SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) selling on Amazon embraced international expansion, marking a significant milestone in their journey toward global growth. The leading product categories were Home & Kitchen, Beauty, and Apparel, with Germany, France, and Italy emerging as the most popular export destinations. The total value of foreign…
LOT Polish Airlines are interested in buying the biggest Czech airline Smartwings. The other two bidders are Eurowings (Germany) and SunExpress (Turkey) after Smartwings majority owner Jiri Simane abandoned negotiations with Israir (Israel) because of political upheavals in the Middle East. He wants to take advantage of the current good trends and sell the company…
The issue of whether Polish businesses will profit from post-war reconstruction of Ukraine raised its head again recently. The picture is perhaps not as black as some have painted. According to the World Bank, it will cost about $411 billion to rebuild Ukraine’s housing, infrastructure, and services destroyed by Russia. During the June 2023 Ukraine…
On 26 June at a press conference the PM Donald Tusk, the Minister with the Vice-Minister for Infrastructure and the Government’s Plenipotentiary announced continuation of Poland’s key infrastructural project Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK), also named Solidarity Transport Hub, started in 2018 and suspended after the parliamentary elections in October 2023 for the present government’s audits….
In 2023 Orlen launched the Hydrogen Academy, the first Polish education programme for H2 specialists in various industries, like manufacturing, aviation, shipping and transportation. So far courses have been organised with a few dozen lecturers and experts for students and graduates at several locations in Poland, like Anwill Włocławek (chemical facilities), Toyota Motor Poland, Toyota…
This year Polska Żegluga Morska (Polish Steamship Company) received 3 new bulk carriers in the series of 12 contracted from Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) in China. They are the so-called lake-max ships, i.e. 200 m long and 23.7 m wide adjusted to the system of channels and sluices of the Great Lakes in USA….
New container terminal T3 is constructed in the Baltic Hub (DCT Gdańsk) by a consortium of Budimex (Poland) and Deme Dredging (Belgium) to become the biggest deep container terminal on the Baltic Sea with over 20 automated gantries and 20 harbour cranes. 40 ha of T3 artificial isle “enlarging” the territory of Poland has been…
The Warsaw leg of the Wolves Summit CEE took place on May 8-9. The start-ups that offered the best technological solutions were awarded at the Great Pitch Contest event, where Saventic, Proofminder, and FleetFox took the top three prizes. The Wolves Summit, which started in Warsaw in 2015, continues its integrated deal flow creation and…
Every festival is characterized by the soul that moves it and in the European panorama, one of the most open to the themes of social inclusion and innovation is the WeMakeFuture festival, which this year will be held in Bologna on 13-15 June. Italy is certainly not the first country that springs to mind if…
