Contributions
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Offshore 2021: Grounds for optimism?
After the shocks of 2020, can offshore operators hope for a better year? The concluding part of Splash’s markets outlook…
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Shipowner consolidation 2021: Pools in the limelight
Splash’s market outlook series today looks at how shipowners will coalesce in 2021. Will shipowning consolidation continue at the brisk…
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LNG as a fuel through to 2050
Peter Keller, SEA-LNG chairman, writes for Splash today 2020 was a year of tough choices for everyone in shipping. But…
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Maritme tech 2021: How to future-proof investments
Has it ever been harder for shipowners to know what assets to buy? Splash seeks out some investment advice. With…
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Virtual interactions are testing our Sitzfleisch
Banu Kannu, co-founder of uncommon conferences, on how to make for meaningful gatherings in 2021. It’s fair to say most…
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Maritime tech 2021: Optimisation still leads the agenda
What will be the biggest influences on maritime technology in year two of the pandemic? Splash investigates. Operational optimisation is…
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Shipmanagement 2021: What clients want
What’s the most important things shipping companies are asking third party managers today? Splash investigates. Yesterday our shipmanagement 2021 preview…
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Shipmanagement 2021: Covid and the lost generation of quality crew
In the first of a two-part preview of shipmanagement priorities in 2021, the world’s top shipmanagers discuss crew welfare and…
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Building a future with autonomous shipping
Alexander Pinskiy, head of industry association MARINET, explains the long-term vision of the a-Navigation (autonomous navigation) project, its use in…
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My vow to help the lives of seafarers
Manish Singh, CEO of Ocean Technologies Group, outlines his new year’s resolutions to help improve the lot of seafarers, urging…
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How to speed up weather routing
Dr Henry Chen, a retired naval architect, looks at where weather routing has gone wrong and how to improve it.…
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Which sectors will fare best and worst in 2021?
First we asked our readers, then a host of the world’s top shipping analysts. The runners and riders are identified…
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Focus on our people in 2021
2020 threw more challenges at us in our professional and personal lives than we could ever have imagined and no…
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Collaborative technologies for maritime transport at economies of scale
Mikael Lind and Almir Zerem from the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) are joined by Adam Roark and Michele Sancricca from AWS Transportation…
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Containership owners toast a ‘sold-out’ Christmas season
Shippers are squealing, ports are creaking and box-building is booming, but owners of small and large ships are sitting pretty,…
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The year of the petty bureaucrat
2020 was the year in which shipowning companies who had not fitted scrubbers near the top of their ships’ engine…
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The consensus for an effective carbon price for shipping
Channoil Consulting in collaboration with Gibson Shipbrokers have produced a paper offering views and analysis of the route to 2050,…
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Overthinking it: A Christmas toast to the shipping industry
Charlie Du Cane, commercial director at Seastar Maritime, explains how he learned to fall back in love with shipping. A…
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Artificial intelligence can’t answer everything
Ioannis Psarros, chief commercial officer of Signal Maritime Services discusses the limitations of AI for tanker chartering At Signal we…
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The year ahead in ship finance
As is customary at this time of the year the editor asks me for my take on key themes in…
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