Contributions
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Is Hambantota an unwitting pawn in the new political order?
It was recently announced by China Merchants Port Holdings (CMPH) that it was transferring 23.5% of its 85% shareholding of…
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Why algorithms beat experts (even in shipping)
Though many of us like to think we know a bit about wine, there are only a few hundred true…
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What keeps me up at night
Concluding our series looking at issues shipping faces thanks to Covid-19, Graham Porter, the chairman of Tiger Group Investments, writes…
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Are maritime exhibitions dead or just evolving?
Davide Scalia from Namaka Consulting on the future of the shipping show. The pandemic has been a wake-up call for those…
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‘We really, really do not have much time left’
With the relaunch of the Splash website we asked some shipping luminaries to pen their thoughts on how our industry…
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‘One of our biggest challenges is learning to cooperate and to accelerate’
With the relaunch of the Splash website we asked some famous names in shipping to pen their thoughts on how…
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Covid reverses the primacy of our choices over our needs
With the relaunch of the Splash website we asked some famous names in shipping to pen their thoughts on how…
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55% of shore-based employees are seeking a new job
Whichever way you turn at the moment, you cannot escape the needs or wants of people. For those of us…
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The box market tanks but rates increase
Lars Jensen from Sea-Intelligence Consulting praises the strong capacity management seen by the carriers so far this year. We have…
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Why I’m holding onto my gold
When I finished my time as a full-time banker at the end of 2013, I put pretty much everything I…
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The outlook for the LPG trades
Chief correspondent Jason Jiang assesses where rates for LPG carriers are headed after a tough few months. The LPG shipping…
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Certainty is absurd
Bureau Veritas’s Nick Brown helmed a Mare Forum debate on Friday that got him thinking about Voltaire and Star Trek.…
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Maritime’s new normal as seen from the C-suite
Jorn Annweiler from advisory firm Maritime Partners shares a few findings from a just published research study on the Covid-19…
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Time to invest in our common bond
Budrus Laivas tackles the Blacks Lives Matter protests in the context of shipping. Our common bond is our human experience…
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Trieste’s shattered Chinese dream
When Italy signed up to the China Belt Road Initiative in 2019, it had dreams of becoming the key gateway…
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After the flood
Back to normal, business as usual, regular working. All phrases to which millions of people have clung to during the…
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The future of bunker hedging
Ishaan Hemnani from BunkerEx on how best to buy fuel. Last week the CEO of a large bunker trader wrote…
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LNG shipping at the bottom of the cycle
Chief correspondent Jason Jiang looks at the gas trades and ponders when prospects will improve. The outbreak of coronavirus has…
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A word search for dry bulk operators
Mr Prospector has used his time in lockdown to come up with some fun puzzles for the dry bulk community…
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Defence against a rising tide of drugs traffic
With an estimated value of $400bn, the trade in illicit drugs is a high stakes business whose operatives eagerly exploit…
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