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Are EEDI shortcomings shipping’s smoking gun?

October 12th, 20183 With the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) about to sit down for crunch talks at the International Maritime Organization the team at JLA Media look at one...

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2020 HSFO-MGO price differential likely to rise, but scrubber case still uncertain

October 5th, 201811 Ishaan Hemnani from BunkerEx has investigated where existing 3.5% HSFO bunker demand will go, how this will be replaced and what this means for prices. The future...

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IMO 2020: Who will get the bill?

September 26th, 20181 Andy Lane from CTI Consultancy reflects on how liners ought to charge for the sulphur cap. That shirt you're wearing might just have got three cents dearer. With 15...

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Seafarer happiness: The role for management and design

September 25th, 20184 Steven Jones, the founder of the Seafarers Happiness Index, identifies why crew are less cheery about life at sea and how companies need to install a designated person...

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Baffled by Maersk’s BAF

September 21st, 20181 David Macleod from Hong Kong freight management and consultancy HoldFast Pacific chips in with his own thoughts on this week’s hot topic, Maersk’s sulphur cap...

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Nobu Su publishes his take on the global financial crisis

September 18th, 20180 Ten years on from the start of the global financial crisis Taiwanese shipping magnate Nobu Su has a book out looking at how the world economy was plunged into chaos....

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What has changed and what remains the same 10 years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers

September 17th, 20181 Saturday marked the 10th anniversary of the demise of America’s fourth largest investment bank, an event that triggered a record depression for shipping. Panos...

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When boxes will fly

September 14th, 20183 Will the paradigm of moving containers change? Pedro Galveia from Yilport Iberia’s Global Logistics Center peers into the future. During the last decade, the...

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Who is ready for an Arctic ban on HFO?

September 13th, 20180 Dave Walsh from the Clean Arctic Alliance looks at the fuel mix of the various ships transiting Arctic waters this year. In April this year, a meeting of the...

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Is shipping finally addressing the gender gap?

September 12th, 20187 Rachel Morgan from recruitment and HR firm Spinnaker Global reacts to this week’s Women in Maritime charter launch in the UK. When a global industry has an...

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How the IMO got the sulphur cap so wrong

September 7th, 20183 Jeffrey McGee from Makai Marine Advisors makes his Splash debut today in which he looks at the sulphur cap from a different point of view. Amidst the wave of content...

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Why China can tough it out in a trade war

September 7th, 20181 Centrally controlled Beijing has more economic sustenance levers to pull than free market America. The general consensus among economists is that President Trump’s...

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Container market balance has been postponed

September 6th, 20180 Hopes that the box sector might find equilibrium by 2020 now look rather optimistic, writes Lars Jensen from SeaIntelligence Consulting. At the beginning of 2018 the...

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Can this still be real or just some crazy dream?

September 5th, 20180 BIMCO’s chief shipping analyst Peter Sand warns there’s plenty more pain to come in the tanker sector. What a horrible tanker market it is. Freight rates are...

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German shipping shrinks from the global stage

September 4th, 20180 The German market share of the world’s merchant fleet has dropped from 8.3% in 2008 to 5.9% today. Will it continue to slide? Red ink has sunk many blue ribbon...

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Splash Dash

Rosco fleet up for sale again
Chinese owner Rewood Ocean Shipping (Rosco) has listed its entire fleet for sale again, having... Oct 17th, 2018 inDry Cargo
Oltmann makes KG return
A decade since it last dabbled in the KG markets, Germany’s Oltmann Group has launched a new... Oct 17th, 2018 inEurope
V.Group acquires Norddeutsche Reederei H. Schuldt
Shipmanagement giant V.Group continues its growth by acquisition strategy, signing a deal with... Oct 17th, 2018 inOperations
Formosa Plastics pushes ahead with fleet clearout
Taiwanese conglomerate Formosa Plastics is having a fleet clearout with a host of different ship... Oct 17th, 2018 inGreater China
ONE set for singularly awful first year with $600m loss
Carrier consolidation can prove tricky as evidenced today with news of a massive revision of... Oct 16th, 2018 inContainers

More than 80,000 hit by German box leasing Ponzi scheme

Diana Shipping kamsarmax charter extended by Glencore

DeepOcean awarded Australian contract

Adani and Total partner up to develop LNG terminals

Seafarer dies after falling from CSL bulker

Seaboard and BBC Chartering seek joint Americas coverage

Ulstein gets in on the Jones Act with Aeolus Energy SOV deal

Intel chips in on Rolls-Royce’s autonomous shipping drive

Pilot in hot water over last year’s most watched shipping accident

Gulf Energy Maritime puts its handysize tankers up for sale

Gulf Marine Services secures liftboat contract

Höegh LNG vessel to leave Egypt

Adani and Total partner up to develop LNG terminals

ONE set for singularly awful first year with $600m loss

Minsheng Financial Leasing snaps up five PIL boxships

HMM denies move to take over SM Line’s transpacific business

Rizhao Port sets up logistics jv with Cosco

Rosco fleet up for sale again

Formosa Plastics pushes ahead with fleet clearout

Minsheng Financial Leasing snaps up five PIL boxships

The container conundrum