Contributions
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Grain trades provide bulker hope
Chief correspondent Jason Jiang writes that despite the ongoing China-US trade spat, 2019 looks set to be an improving one…
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How to make accommodation blocks more liveable – part two
Peter Gartsjö from PG Marine continues to look into how conditions at sea can be made more comfortable. In 1976…
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ONE too many?
When the three Japanese carriers announced to the world that their containerlines will be united under one brand, the world…
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How to make accommodation blocks more liveable
Splash reported last month on The Mission To Seafarers’ comments that today’s sterile accommodation blocks make hospitals look attractive by…
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Smart money and shipping
Making his Splash debut today is the scurrilous Mr Prospector, who mulls making a dry bulk investment against the better…
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Three tips to maintain an efficient international shipping strategy
Toby Edwards, CEO of Agility’s Shipa Freight online platform, has some useful advice for readers. Gone are the days when…
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American canaries in American coal mines
Jeffrey Landsberg from Commodore Research highlights concerns he’s seeing with US housing data where there’s been 13 straight months of…
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Futures market leads 2020 price discovery
Chris Hudson, a fuel oil futures broker with Freight Investor Services, gives readers an idea of the bunker price spread.…
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How charterers subverted Marpol to bring us today’s scrubber chaos
Steve Nolan, technical director at Schulte Marine Concept in Shanghai, reckons he knows who’s to blame for today’s pre-sulphur cap…
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Maritime automation will not spare seafarers
Humans have a tenuous relationship with automation. On balance, we love it. It has made our lives easier. Freed up…
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Short term sunshine, longer term rain?
The shipping market is emerging into an upward trend cycle but is ever more impacted by external factors, argues Adam…
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Negotiating million dollar deals for breakfast
It’s only February, but Shelf has done the deal of the year so far. And China gets some relief for…
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Block exemption regulation: Shippers ought to be careful what they wish for
Following on from yesterday’s Splash article citing the growing masses pressurising the EU not to extend the block exemption regulation…
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Beyond the normal supply-demand imbalance
Regular Splash contributor Panos Patsadas gives readers his take on dry bulk’s collapse It was only a few months ago…
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How Trieste could become the Singapore of the Adriatic
There has been much commentary around the intent and development of China’s push to increase its trade and energy security…
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An outsider’s view of our neglect of seafarers
In April Hubert Jaroni (pictured) will be running the London Marathon to raise funds for Sailors’ Society. Below this landlubber…
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Are VLCCs set to be 2019’s star performer?
The start of 2019 kicked off with a flurry of very optimistic analyst reports on the prospects for VLCCs. After…
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Live Animal Export: Industrial insecurity
Regular livestock contributor Dr Lynn Simpson makes her 2019 debut warning there’s still plenty to fix in this trade. Where…
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Peak container
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” I thought I’d just drop that line of Wittgenstein in here…
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A pig of a year ahead?
The Lunar New Year starts tomorrow so what does the Year of the Pig hold for shipping ? Splash consults…
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