Contributions
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If seafarers are key workers, why aren’t they being treated like them?
Monica Lambrou-Whiting, senior claims manager at West P&I, writes for Splash today. The scale of the problem is colossal. Around…
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Summer’s dog days see dry bulk market still playing the waiting game
Champagne corks are popping but adjust for the impact of China’s port delays and the outlook shows greater fragility writes…
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Flattening the roller-coaster costs of ship maintenance
Hendrix Yap, head of end user sales at ABB Turbocharging Singapore, on the growing importance of data-based maintenance plans. “Grant…
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Operational considerations for commercial nuclear propulsion
Known to most as a senior London arbitrator, Michael Allen’s first career before becoming a lawyer was as an engineer…
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Saving the planet while ignoring two thirds of it
Bestselling author Ian Urbina, the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a Washington DC-based non-profit journalism organisation, writes for Splash today.…
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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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Stopford on Maersk and methanol
The world’s most famous shipping economist, Dr Martin Stopford, the non-executive president of Clarkson Research Services, writes for Splash today,…
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Closing the data gap behind shipping’s ESG strategies
Carole Plessy, head of maritime at OneWeb, on how to get and handle ESG data Shipowners and operators are under…
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Maritime security and the Security Council
Why the maritime industry needs to pay close attention to recent United Nations debates. By Christian Bueger, a professor at…
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Seafarers waiting for Godot
Steven Jones, the compiler of the Seafarers Happiness Index, on the realities of staying at sea for so long. People…
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A defence of the International Maritime Organization
Greg Atkinson reckons much of the criticism aimed at the IMO is misguided. In recent months there has been an…
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Career in shipping? The soft skill no one talks about
Panos Patsadas on the importance of being genuine when going for a job in shipping. I am known for being…
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Staying on the front foot
Ana Casaca ponders what’s best for container shipping when it comes to route planning. Over the years, containerships have become…
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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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Offshore sector needs a reality check on long-term benefits of consolidation
Asset valuations that are more about perception than reality are holding up recovery in the drilling sector, writes Gregory Brown,…
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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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Will the transparent evidence requirements of ESG disrupt the shipping industry?
So far shipping has been able to skirt around the edge of the disruption that ESG could be about to…
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Just what is green finance?
There sure are a heck of a lot of conferences these days focused on so-called green finance. The term has…
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Confusion surrounds sustainable ship recycling options
Amit Malhotra, a senior trader at GMS Japan, on the risks posed by competing ship scrapping regulations. Environmental issues are…
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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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