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Banking crises lead inexorably to shipping crises
Andrew Craig-Bennett makes his return with some timely advice for owners. There might be a problem with banks, or there…
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Tankers, crimes, and fortunes
Andrew Craig-Bennett delves into the past as he worries about today’s growing dark fleet. Balzac never wrote, “Behind every fortune…
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Why Greek shipping might struggle this century
The benign post-World War II conditions which allowed Greece to become the world’s top shipowning nation are changing. On the…
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About those Ukrainian ton miles
We have a wheat problem. Or a Black Sea problem. At all events, a shipping problem. In a few weeks,…
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Special military operations and merchant shipping
I must make it quite clear that there is not a war going on. There is a small and highly…
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The deck chairs of the Christina
A remark attributed, wrongly, to V.I. Lenin has become popular. In the commonest version, it runs, “There are decades when…
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The minutiae of war and shipping
A merchant seaman, Mr Hadisur Rahman, third engineer onboard the bulk carrier Banglar Samriddhi, has already been killed in this…
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The glorious year of 2022
The editor asked me to write something about a wish list for 2022. The first wish is dead easy. I…
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The embarrassment of riches
I stole that title from a book by Professor Simon Schama, who, before he was famous, was one of my…
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Let’s not talk about nuclear ships
You need a degree in physics to understand the subject of nuclear-powered ships. The technical issues that come with nuclear…
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Sailing on an ocean of greenwash
In 1979 there was an oil crisis brought on by the revolution in Iran. Crude oil doubled in price to…
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Fat cows, foolish virgins, and the snows of yesteryear
The carriage of goods by sea is one of the things that Sir Richard Branson hasn’t tried (yet) so the…
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The Andy Warhol moment
Splash’s chief opinion writer, Andrew Craig-Bennett, reflects on shipping’s 15 minutes of fame. “There were no wrecks, and nobody drowned…
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This ‘moonshot’ isn’t rocket science
Andrew Craig-Bennett is not happy with Wednesday’s $5bn R&D submission to the IMO by shipowning interests. “Da mihi castitatem et…
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The year of the petty bureaucrat
2020 was the year in which shipowning companies who had not fitted scrubbers near the top of their ships’ engine…
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Why the IMO should move its HQ from London to Singapore
There is a variant of Parkinson’s Law which says that once an organisation builds itself a grand headquarters it is…
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A practical way to deal with the shameful maltreatment of 600,000 people
We can’t go on like this. We all know it. The frequency of silly little accidents that pop up in…
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The ship of the future, 2020 edition
I have been thinking about the great issues of the day, as they affect shipping. Since we no longer have…
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‘We really, really do not have much time left’
With the relaunch of the Splash website we asked some shipping luminaries to pen their thoughts on how our industry…
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Two popes and a pestilence
There is a historian’s in-joke going round to the effect that if you ever wanted to know what the fourteenth…
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