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Tech
Scandinavia leading the way in maritime innovation
Having lived in China for many years news that a giant hole was to be blasted in a mountain to…
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Operations
Shipping event overcapacity
This week we’ve had contributors help cover developments at three shipping events around the world. There’s been TPM, the massive…
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Asia
Train wrecks, shipping and transparency
“A train wreck in slow motion.” That’s how Venkatraman Sheshashayee, the offshore veteran and CEO of Micyln Express Offshore, described…
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Asia
Downturn brings shipping closer to the general public
A picture paints a thousand words so the saying goes. I was indebted earlier this week to lawyer Lars-Erik Østerbø who…
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Operations
Humans still have the edge in shipping when it comes to complex deals
A couple of weeks back in this regular Friday column I weighed up how digitisation in freight transport could threaten…
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Asia
Singapore’s millionaires are not best suited to build rigs
The obituary for Singapore’s shipyards has been written many, many times. It’s Indian summer – roughly 2006 to 2012 –…
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Tech
Digitisation and the threat to the middleman
At Splash we always enjoy any contributions from the founder of Futurenautics, K D Adamson – whatever she has to…
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Greater China
Why OOCL will tempt many
So no surprise that talk of Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) being bought out dominated hits this week here at…
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Dry Cargo
2016: The year of living dangerously
As your editor I tend to get up very early – 5am in wintertime, 6am in summertime. As with all…
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Operations
Taking the livestock campaign to the IMO
Tumultuous. That seems to be the cliché mot du jour among shipping editors at this time of year where annual…
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Offshore
OSV carnage images spark frenzy
Sometimes in this game of news, pictures can sell really well. Shipping tends to be a tricky industry to source…
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Europe
Liner merger fever
Splash’s Opinion writers led the site this week, providing readers with unique insights into container shipping’s greatest 12 months of…
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Europe
And then there were 11. Who will follow Hamburg Süd?
It is no great surprise that hits-wise one story dominated our site this week. My colleague, Grant Rowles, was first…
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Greater China
Assessing the purpose of maritime weeks
Hong Kong Maritime Industry Week is drawing to a close. I’ve had a great, fascinating time. There are few places…
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Americas
Will politics trump shipping?
Splash Opinion writers are selected for a variety of reasons, not least their ability to be divisive. Lengthy, angry reader…
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Containers
The scramble to join container shipping’s exclusive millionaire’s club
1.3 million. That’s the new threshold in teu where a carrier can feel just about safe, according to Splash contributor…
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Operations
Reader interaction yielding plenty of fascinating insights
Bankruptcy and restructuring stories dominated Splash once again this week with readers lapping up our reports on Hanjin, Flinter, Ezra,…
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Containers
Container shipping in its most uncertain period ever
In the 60 years since Malcom Mclean first whacked a box on a converted tanker and ushered in the era…
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Asia
‘This could be heaven or this could be hell’: Bankruptcy paranoia roils the industry
Last week I posited in this regular Scuttlebutt column that it looked like we were entering peak bankruptcy season. This…
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Asia
Are we entering peak bankruptcy season?
Are we entering peak bankruptcy time now for shipping? I’d argue that the coming six to 12 months will see…
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