Contributions
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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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Two commendable aspects arising from the ONE Apus box collapse
It’s clearly the most talked about, eagerly viewed shipping story of the month, but there are two commendable things I’d…
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Democratising the smart port in the last mile
The resources and tech to become a smart port are unevenly distributed – and it’s causing a dangerous gulf in…
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Why this box spill ought to spur change
Captain Colin Smith was horrified last week on seeing the collapsed boxes strewn across the Japanese boxship, ONE Apus. For…
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Drones come to the rescue in Covid battle at sea
Panagiotis Galanis reports on the the first transportation of rapid Covid tests for seafarers using drones. The ancient Greek poet…
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Autonomous ships: Coming soon to a port near you
‘This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error’ – Hal 9000,…
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Nuclear and the fourth industrial energy revolution at sea
Ultra-modern nuclear technology for transport and industry – the clock is ticking on what really matters, argues Mikal Bøe from…
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LNG enters new phase
Dallas Smith, director of LNG and offshore at the Liberian Registry, writes today on the importance of rapidly scaling up…
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Environmentally Acceptable Lubricants (EALs): Choosing the right EAL type for your application
There is a wide range of performance levels among both readily biodegradable and petroleum-based lubricants. It’s important to know that…
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Building global traders
Signal Maritime Services CEO, Panos Dimitracopoulos discusses how to best give new chartering executives the skills needed to work to…
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The time is now for a vaccine distribution ecosystem
The Covid-19 supply chain challenge is of a scale and magnitude no one alive today has ever seen. How best…
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MEPC 75 is expected to fix ballast water commissioning testing, but shipowners will still be left with real compliance risks
Dimitrios Tsoulos from ballast water management system manufacturer De Nora writes for Splash today ahead of next week’s IMO-convened MEPC…
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Why the IMO’s draft Arctic HFO regulation will not protect the Arctic, and how to fix it
Dr Sian Prior, lead advisor to the Clean Arctic Alliance, writes for Splash today ahead of next week’s MEPC 75…
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