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Are there really any limits to artificial intelligence in shipping?
Splash columnists collide as Kris Kosmala takes on Pierre Aury on all things AI. I read an interesting argument this…
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Love thy freight forwarder, soon they might not be there to return your love
Kris Kosmala on the similarities between transporting containers and passengers. The outrageous container rates between Asia and European and American…
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Terminal velocity
Splash columnist Kris Kosmala identifies the tech issues that led to container ports buckling during the pandemic. Are you familiar…
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Shipping’s green-tinted glasses
Another week, another shipping story discussing ships of the future being powered by this or that fuel. Each wave of…
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Your next port master plan ex machina?
Every 10 years or so, port administrators dust off their crystal ball to produce a new port master plan. The…
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Reading into the Cosco, Alibaba tie-up
News carried on this site on Tuesday that Chinese state-run shipping giant Cosco Shipping has entered into an agreement with…
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How to privatise ports, the Australian way
Every country in the world views their ports as critical to their ability to trade with other nations. This is…
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Containers
Goodbye big ships. Hello profitability
I love the container shipping industry and the ways in which it behaves. There is some predictability to it and…
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Sensory deprivation trouble
Old fashioned engineering is boring. Computer engineering works. Computer-aided design eliminated the drudgery of creating hardcopy drawings and cross-checking design…
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Asia
ONE too many?
When the three Japanese carriers announced to the world that their containerlines will be united under one brand, the world…
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Maritime automation will not spare seafarers
Humans have a tenuous relationship with automation. On balance, we love it. It has made our lives easier. Freed up…
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Unifeeder & DP World: The curious marriage on the short seas
Profitable growth in the maritime shipping industry is a precious commodity. The old thinking of getting bigger through mergers or…
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Asia
Should HMM stay or go?
On March 16 2017, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) inked a three-year strategic cooperation agreement with Maersk and MSC’s 2M alliance.…
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Tide of digitalisation caught up in auto-pilot mode
It is telling, when following one of the recent conference sessions dedicated to container shipping, the moderator quipped how great…
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Containers
Why Cosco, not Maersk, may be the one to beat in door-to-door integrated logistics
When Maersk announced a major refocusing of its business and combined the maritime and logistics businesses under one roof, the…
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Asia
Post-Hanjin reality, one year on
Does anyone still remember the excitement of Maersk’s EEE (18,340 teu) coming into service in 2015? Any passion still left…
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Containers
The intriguing marriage dance of OOCL and Cosco
The container shipping consolidation claimed another mid-size player and, if approved, will catapult the buyer into the small group of…
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Containers
Shipping companies idle as e-commerce players build the future
Every time we think of the most powerful e-commerce companies, what comes to mind are images of artificial intelligence (AI)…
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Containers
Digitialisation in container shipping may not be the carriers’ doing
Much ink has been spilled on the subject of Maersk and Alibaba striking a deal allowing Maersk’s booking process to…
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Asia
Obituary: Hanjin Shipping
Hanjin Shipping, a global container carrier of note, was born in 1977 and passed away on 17 February 2017, a…
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