Contributions
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Shipping readies to party
Capital Link is the first of the big conferences at Posidonia today. Dagfinn Lunde from eShipFinance.com on the likely talking…
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Why Greek shipping might struggle this century
The benign post-World War II conditions which allowed Greece to become the world’s top shipowning nation are changing. On the…
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How to use big data for maritime risk management
Adrian Clifton writes for maritime safety management company HiLo. He explains what big data is, how it works, and the…
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The growing role of private equity in maritime
Manish Singh has been a leading collaborator with private equity institutions focused on investing in and consolidation within the maritime…
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About those Ukrainian ton miles
We have a wheat problem. Or a Black Sea problem. At all events, a shipping problem. In a few weeks,…
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The rise of the super manager
The image of the third-party shipmanagement sector is changing writes Edward Ion from Navigate Response. Strange as it may seem…
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May favours product tankers as politics and policy cloud market picture
Product tankers are in the spotlight as recovering demand meets constrained supply and crude trades recalibrate to new geopolitical realities,…
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How to avoid collateral damage in a mine threat area
Shaun Robertson from UK security firm Palaemon Maritime with advice for international shipping, especially vessels around today’s dangerous Black Sea.…
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Why ammonia and methanol are clear winners
Carl Martin Faannessen, CEO of Manila-based crewing specialist Noatun Maritime, has a firm idea which two fuels have won the…
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Riding a bevy of black swans
Steven Jones, founder of the Seafarers Happiness Index, on the desperately dark mood out at sea these days. There’s an…
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Upcoming European tsunami
Chatting with folk in shipping and skimming through the industry press I am amazed how little awareness there is of…
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Green recycling isn’t enough
Carl Martin Faannessen, CEO of Manila-based crewing specialist Noatun Maritime, on just how far behind shipping’s thinking is when it…
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Tanker pooling is a crucial tool for decarbonisation
Matthew Smith from Tankers International makes the green case for clubbing together. As consumers and financiers have better understood the…
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China’s transport links with Central Asia in the spotlight
Raffaello Pantucci, the co-author of the just published Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire, a book studying the People’s Republic’s growing influence…
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Are the lessons being learnt from shipping’s serious accidents?
Often the only good thing that comes out of a tragedy or disaster is that the investigation gives us some…
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New approach to maritime safety needed
For years, the shipping industry has focused on regulations and procedures to improve safety. Yet shipping is still at risk…
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Tanker market weighs winners and losers
Crude trade volumes are revised down but the distances ships must carry it will increase, leading to a more positive…
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Shipping’s digital conundrum
As shipping considers the direction its digital transition takes, now is the time for standardisation across the industry, writes John…
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Solving shipping’s sanctions conundrum: the role of data analysis and human insight
Dominic McKnight Hardy, managing director at MIS Marine, writes for Splash today on the complex sanctions situation following Russia’s invasion…
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Shipmangement’s glass ceiling
Is there a more male-dominated industry than shipmanagement? Can more women get into senior positions? Shipmanagement does appear to have…
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