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Never let a good crisis go to waste
It was Britain’s favourite Briton (according to TV polls at least) who declaimed that faced with a crisis, one should…
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Are regional regulations really such a terrible idea?
The things that work well and are easy to use tend to become those that endure. Things that are difficult…
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After the flood
Back to normal, business as usual, regular working. All phrases to which millions of people have clung to during the…
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No industry for old men
The first step in making a change is acknowledging the need for change and by that marker, the maritime industry…
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Shipping 2.0: This time it’s different
Sometime in the not so distant past, a bit less than 20 years ago in fact, I had the enviable…
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the IMO
Rather than apologise to legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, I should probably start by apologising to the IMO. Like fellow Splash…
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A last (D-word) on Nor-Shipping 2017
‘You can’t stop the waves but you can learn how to surf’ read the sign in the window of a…
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Achieving ‘Procurement Nirvana’ with big data
Big data, observed the chair of the ShipServ Smart Procurement KD Adamson, is a little like teenage sex. “Everybody claims…
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Can blockchain help design a better maritime internet?
When all you have is a hammer, so the old saying goes, everything tends to look like a nail. When…
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Turbulence ahead for shipping’s smart future
I happened to be flying from Hamburg to London last week when storm Doris was doing her worst to disrupt…
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Weighing up risks in container shipping
Being careful what you wish for is axiomatic in the maritime industry and especially when it comes to the effect…
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Asia
Smart shipping needs smarter regulation
The era of ‘smart shipping’ needs much smarter regulation, supported by greater engagement from the industry to lobby for a…
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Removing the obstacles to carbon reduction
A binding agreement on targets to reduce carbon emissions from shipping struck at COP21 would be a disaster for the…
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Shipping regulation in uncharted waters
Never again, seems to be the consensus industry view on the Ballast Water Management Convention and the revision of Marpol…
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What Triton could learn from Somalia
A couple of weeks ago I tweeted a link to a BBC news story on the Triton operation that has…
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