Contributions
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Live Animal Export: Ignorant, defiant or stupid?
Splash livestock expert Dr Lynn Simpson is disappointed with changes made to the animal export industry in Australia this week.…
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Tech bashing
Simon Ward from Ursa Shipbrokers takes the promoters of blockchain and autonomous ships to task. Maybe I have been a…
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Increasing demand and rising costs drive newbuilding price hikes
Better earnings will power a recovery in newbuilding activity, while rising yards costs and the ongoing squeeze on capacity are…
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The Wrong A-gender
Gender diversity is the durian of low hanging fruit in the shipping industry, argues KD Adamson from Futurenautics. What if…
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The seven phases of a cyber attack
Craig Reeds from class society DNV GL provides Splash readers with this useful guide on what happens when your organisation…
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Why LNG represents a bridge of pragmatism on shipping’s road to decarbonisation
Peter Keller, chairman of SEA\LNG and executive vice president, Tote, writes exclusively for Splash today, explaining why he is adamant…
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Adding uncertainty in an uncertain market
Analysts at ClipperMaritime look at what new sulphur regulations will bring to the industry. As the deadline for switching to…
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Holding on
One of the world’s foremost poets wrote in an unforgettable poem called If, If you can force your heart and…
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Tide of digitalisation caught up in auto-pilot mode
It is telling, when following one of the recent conference sessions dedicated to container shipping, the moderator quipped how great…
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You’re not an idiot if you believe in deepwater drilling
The drillship market has sucked for years, and now it’s getting interesting says David Carter Shinn from Bassoe Offshore. One of…
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Not your father’s weather routeing
A new generation of technology is improving schedule reliability, saving money and reducing carbon emissions, says Penny Haire from Tidetech.…
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Nobu Su documentary raises more questions than it answers
Jenna Brown from Shipamax, the cloud software platform for the bulk shipping industry, attended Friday’s premiere of The Outsider, the…
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Sleeve oil and its substitutes post MEPC 72
Up to now, owners have been a bit wary about putting their ships’ fuel consumptions in the public domain. For…
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Owners have lost control of the cape spot market
Louis Dreyfus Armateur’s decision to exit the cape spot market has elicited much response. Chief correspondent Jason Jiang identifies the…
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Six ways to spot an ICO scam
With shipping initial coin offerings raining in the team at Data Driven Investor provide a useful checklist to sort the…
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Lessons for effective and sustainable safety communications in the logistics industry
Des McGowan from Insync ponders whether we should focus on safety compliance or safety culture. You may think that you…
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the IMO
Rather than apologise to legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, I should probably start by apologising to the IMO. Like fellow Splash…
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Live Animal Export: The dead sheep handicap
Dr Lynn Simpson reimagines the Australian livestock trade scene post-60 Minutes as a horse race. Who will make it past…
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Practical aspects of the IMO MEPC 72
I mentioned, a few days ago, that in the future, as the ‘open range’ that the high seas have been,…
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Say no to scrubbers, for now
Ishaan Hemnani from BunkerEx suggests owners should not be drawn into buying a scrubber just yet. How best to deal…
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