Contributions
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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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Drug smuggling in commercial shipping
With the maritime industry continually improving anti-narcotics operations around the world, traffickers are finding increasingly novel and ingenious ways of…
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What the battle for the White House means for global shipping
With the US election just six days away, we asked Dr Adam Kent, managing director of Maritime Strategies International, for…
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How technology can get our seafarers home safely
Gerry Buchanan from the Liberian Registry provides readers with suggestions and updates on how to resolve the crew change crisis.…
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A digital shipping industry deserves better than a noon report
Shipowners know they need better data, but many still don’t know where to start with digital solutions, writes Kashif Mahmood…
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Is all transparency good?
Signal Ocean COO, Dimitris Tsapoulis looks at the role of transparency in commercial shipping. Transparency seems to be the order…
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Maritime Black Lives Matter
The shipping industry must act to include more Black people in its community and make them leaders, argues Namrata Nadkarni,…
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Shipping all at sea when it comes to defining decarbonisation
Shipping has no clear understanding of what decarbonisation means in real terms for the industry, a poll carried by this…
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Banks will shun shipping post-Covid
For all the talk that shipping will escape 2020 as one of very few industries to have had an improved…
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Wind-assist technology is ready and waiting for IMO to set tough CO2 rules
Nico van der Kolk from Dutch engineering consultancy Blue WASP hopes wind will be discussed at length as regulators sit…
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Keeping up with the Jones Act
How two words could sink America’s future in offshore wind. By Noelle Thuillier. The US House of Representatives has passed…
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Shipping’s green-tinted glasses
Another week, another shipping story discussing ships of the future being powered by this or that fuel. Each wave of…
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Modern atomic versus future fuels
Mikal Bøe, CEO of CORE-POWER, writes today on how lifecycle economics stack up. As the second oldest profession in the…
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Why scrubbers matter
Ian Adams, executive director of the Clean Shipping Alliance 2020, explains why the continued use of heavy fuel oil and…
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What’s in store for Maritime Labour Convention Version 2.0?
Back when he was the managing director of the Hong Kong Shipowners Association, Arthur Bowring played an important role in…
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Maritime CEOs give their vision of the industry in 2030
Concluding our week-long look at how the shipping industry might look 10 years from now, we sought the views of…
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Virtual classrooms
How to carry on training during and after the pandemic. The latest instalment in our Shipping in 2030 magazine, published…
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What changes would you like to make to the Maritime Labour Convention?
The so-called seafarer bill of rights is due to be updated. Suggested changes need to be filed with the International…
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Cargo flow in 2030
Revolution or evolution? What will the business of shipping and ports look like 10 years from now? The next chapter…
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Why the IMO should move its HQ from London to Singapore
There is a variant of Parkinson’s Law which says that once an organisation builds itself a grand headquarters it is…
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