Contributions
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Human crewing power in an automated world
Digitalisation can supercharge crewing strategies. Nick Clarke, CEO of Greywing and Peter Schellenberger, managing director at Vanir Marine, explain how.…
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Crew training: The new norm or just the start?
The pandemic has transformed how seafarers are trained, but could greater shake-ups be on the cards soon? Shipping accepts the…
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Lessons learned from the Felicity Ace disaster
Jim Loftis, Ciara Ros and Joe Mallet from law firm Vinson & Elkins on practical steps for legal protection for…
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Africa as the next manning frontier
Will managers turn to a new continent to staff the next generation of ships? Maritime has long been an attractive…
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Pools no longer seen as a defensive measure
The world’s leading commercial managers make the case for pools in an upturn. Commercial management of ships is a growing…
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Shipmanagers and the art of risk removal
Owners are increasingly relying on managers to help navigate the tsunami of environmental rules coming shipping’s way The steadily increasing…
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Why shipmanagers don’t collaborate on software development
Owners would love shipmanagers to share some of their software breakthroughs. Don’t hold your breath. The tech is often their…
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Getting owners to understand the merits of a happy crew
How do managers discuss the importance of crew welfare with their customers? Crew welfare has been brought into sharp focus…
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Is the shipmanagement model of ‘we can do it more cheaply than you can’ broken?
Shipmanagement is a very competitive business. It always has been, and while there has been plenty of consolidation in the…
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Shipmanagers and the need to be speaking from the same page
Shipmanagers bristle at their lack of representation in handling the big issues facing shipping. How to change this impasse? Shipmanagers…
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The future of shipmanagement
How will shipmanagement transform in the coming years? Is there a risk other sectors will muscle into managers’ domain? The…
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Will the EU ETS reshape the maritime industry?
Georgios Plevrakis from ABS runs the numbers on what owners will have to pay Brussels per ship type once new…
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Shipmanagment and ESG
How shipmanagers can assist owners in reaching their ESG goals. ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) is going to drive investment…
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Mind the gap: maritime digitalisation in the next decade and beyond
Vessel operators can enjoy bandwidth when and where they need it, but digitalisation will stretch communications capacity like never before,…
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How can the maritime industry encourage diversity?
With its international spread, shipping can be described as already being diverse per se, according to Claudia Paschkewitz, managing director…
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Embracing sustainability via data
The maritime industry is increasingly subject to scrutiny of ESG credentials by stakeholders including financial institutions, operating partners and end…
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Is maritime media Eurocentric?
Santosh Patil argues shipping coverage does not reflect the reality on the ground with Asia not getting the reportage it…
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The future of the seaborne LNG trades
Nicola Contessi, a research associate at the York Centre for Asian Research in Toronto, on the demand outlook for LNG.…
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Special military operations and merchant shipping
I must make it quite clear that there is not a war going on. There is a small and highly…
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The deck chairs of the Christina
A remark attributed, wrongly, to V.I. Lenin has become popular. In the commonest version, it runs, “There are decades when…
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