Contributions
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Platforms and digitalisation in bulk shipping
Enqlare’s Gustaf Dyrssen takes issues with those who continually say shipping is behind other industries when it comes to tech…
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Is DP World building a shipping line?
Santosh Patil takes a look at what the Dubai terminal operator’s latest acquisition means in the big picture. The news…
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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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Decarbonisation – whose risk is it?
Di Gilpin from the Smart Green Shipping Alliance discusses the brick wall she and other green tech entrepreneurs face when…
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How data analytics can help prevent the next maritime disaster
Ami Daniel, CEO of Windward, calls for an international ‘ocean mission control’ to stem the tide of accidents at sea.…
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Should Australia be worried by Beijing’s iron ore security posturing?
Chief correspondent Jason Jiang digs into the souring of relations between China and Australia to ask what this could mean…
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How prepared is shipping for a cyber attack, really?
Daniel Ng and Professor Siraj Shaikh from CyberOwl question whether shipping executives really know if they are prepared to handle…
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Armed guarding shouldn’t be cheap. It should be expensive
James Wilkes from Gray Page writes today about the dangerously low price levels private maritime security companies are offering. Rolls-Royce…
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Slow steaming won’t necessarily cut emissions – so what will?
Dr Teemu Manderbacka from NAPA Shipping Solutions writes on how to use operational data to validate new ship designs. Recent…
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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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Storytelling and fundraising
Charlie Du Cane, commercial director at Seastar Maritime, on the art of pitching shipping projects to investors My grandfather was…
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The berth of a nation
Davy Jones urges for the oceans to be granted a seat at the United Nations to solve many of today’s…
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Crew change still isn’t working
James Wilkes from Gray Page urges the IMO to set up multiple virtual flying squads of advisors and experts to…
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Are smart ports progressing or treading water?
The current escalation of digitalisation and IT development has been given a new lease of life under the new normal…
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The feeder game is changing
Santosh Patil reflects on the ramifications of terminal operators building their own box fleets. A couple of years ago I…
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Shipping’s decarbonisation puzzle: a barometer of industry views
Castrol’s Cassandra Higham reveals details of a decarbonisation survey her firm carried out with owners, operators and managers. Shipping is on…
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What zero-emissions means for our industry
Richard Klatten, CEO of Future Proof Shipping, writes for Splash on a thorny issue shipping is trying to resolve. At…
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Future sourcing, and the impact on liner shipping
Re-shoring of industries post-coronavirus is a hot topic at the moment. Andy Lane from Singapore’s CTI Consultancy crunches the numbers…
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Why the internal combustion engine is here to stay
Its obituary has been written repeatedly of late but the current power part of a ship is not going to…
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Crew change blah blah
The UK crew change summit has yielded nothing to fix the seafarer repatriation issue, warns an irate Frank Coles from…
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