Contributions
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How shipping should develop a purpose-driven decarbonisation R&D centre
Harry Sangree, the founder of SeaFreight Labs, commends readers to pick up a copy of Jon Gertner’s book on Bell…
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The asset light shipping company of Airdrie
Mr Prospector bumps into an old mate at the bus stop. “There’s probably a reader out there somewhere,” I tell…
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Supply, not demand key to container sector’s ability to fight coronavirus
In the second part of his analysis, Dr Adam Kent, managing director, MSI examines the risks to the container market…
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Shipping should shrug off coronavirus but escalation risks supply chain contagion
In the first of a two-part analysis on the impact of the coronavirus, Dr Adam Kent, managing director, MSI looks…
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Are net zero claims killing corporate credibility?
Gavin Lipsith, head of content at Wake Media, on swapping ethics for accounting. “Net zero is not zero. If I…
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Inherent doubt: Navigating complexity and ambiguity
Teemu Manderbacka, senior R&D engineer at NAPA, has some weather routing advice. Voyage optimisation has empirically demonstrated that it has…
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Is Kenya’s Mombasa Port another victim of China’s debt diplomacy?
The crescendo around claims that the Belt Road Initiative (BRI) is nothing more than Chinese debt diplomacy to secure strategic…
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China’s Belt Road Initiative – consolidation or dislocation?
There has been ongoing commentary that China’s BRI is about to collapse as it was ill conceived and planned. After…
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Operational agility in the 2020s demands blended connectivity
A new report from Futurenautics and Vodafone published this week shows that 90% of shipboard data never leaves the vessel,…
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Know your coal counterparty
David Flanagan, an analyst at Infospectrum, writes for Splash today on risk management. The most troublesome challenges facing risk management…
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Shipping’s green $1trn is a profitable investment, not a cost
Marie Hubatova, a research analyst at the Environmental Defense Fund, discusses the zero-carbon shipping opportunity ahead of us. Earlier this…
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AMS ballast water management system extensions: shipowners and vendors must act now
The five-year AMS window is closing for many vessels and owners whose systems are awaiting USCG Type Approval should not…
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How the coronavirus impacts container availability
Florian Frese from Container xChange warns that empty containers are piling up in Shanghai. Everyone is talking about the coronavirus…
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Why the shipping industry should not fear transparency
Stefan Kukman, founder and CEO of CargoX, writes exclusively for Splash today, explaining to readers some of the intricacies of…
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CEO Chronicles #16: How to escape from prison!
ACT 1, SCENE 1 : The monkey in the room [An office. The CEO stands with his feet apart, hands…
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IMO 2020: Winners and losers in a maritime environmental story
Scott Reynolds from BLOC-X, a trading software provider for the OTC oil block futures market, assesses the impact of the…
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Pools resurface with shipping swimming in data
Dr Roar Adland, shipping professor at the Norwegian School of Economics, writes for Splash on the sudden return of shipping…
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The landside challenge of decarbonisation
Halving the maritime industry’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 extends far beyond ships and their propulsion systems. It means getting…
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Opportunity knocks at the strangest of times for capesizes
Mr Prospector tries to beat the January blues, as statistically February will be worse. ‘The fun of January’ is a…
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What you don’t know can hurt you: Addressing the offshore market’s knowledge gap
Ian Nash from SPS Technology writes today on the importance of sharing know-how in the hard-hit offshore sector. The steady…
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