Contributions
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China’s Belt Road Initiative and the demise of the 20,000 teu boxship
Having been on a speaking trip in China to discuss the China Belt Road Initiative (BRI), it still amazes me…
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Girls on film, ships on beaches
Nick Arthur from communications firm BLUE on the importance of getting your message correctly out in the open. Remember the…
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The pursuit of seafarer happiness
Happiness has become quite a topic of conversation lately – there has been the International Day of Happiness, and the…
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Why methanol will take its place in the marine fuels mix
Chris Chatterton, chief operating officer at the Methanol Institute, looks beyond 2020. It is a truism in shipping that investors…
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Social media performance: Anglo-Eastern tops shipmanagement
Competitor analysis…don’t you love it? In marketing it’s always tempting to develop a strategy based on what someone else is…
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Identifying chronic unease onboard
Chronic unease is the experience of unease and discomfort regarding the management of risks. It’s that feeling in the pit…
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Incentive schemes for promoting green shipping
Renilde Becqué from the Natural Resources Defense Council takes a look at what ports are doing to financially encourage shipowners…
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Global food trends and advances in reefer technology
Ah Huat Goh from Daikin looks at the rise in superfoods and how free trade agreements are changing the reefer…
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Singapore’s innovation drive
The Lion Republic is at the forefront of digital trials set to transform maritime as delegates attending today’s Asia Pacific…
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The maritime HR crunch in Singapore
Chief correspondent Jason Jiang looks at the demographic divide causing trouble at the world’s most vibrant maritime hub. Singapore has…
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Why Cosco, not Maersk, may be the one to beat in door-to-door integrated logistics
When Maersk announced a major refocusing of its business and combined the maritime and logistics businesses under one roof, the…
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Building for a better tanker future
Ahead of his opening role at our Maritime CEO Forum in Singapore next week BIMCO’s Peter Sand has some good…
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SHIP happens (twice)
Lars Jensen from Seaintelligence Consulting rifles through all the sudden raft of initial coin offerings. Last year saw an explosion…
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The best has yet to come for dry bulk
The worst has already passed in terms of monthly fleet growth this year for dry bulk, writes Jeffrey Landsberg from…
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Winds of change
Cecilia Müller Torbrand from the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network writes exclusively for Splash today. The shipping industry is an amazing business.…
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Themes that will dominate ship finance for the next 12 months
There’s been some pretty big wake-up calls for traditional ship finance players in recent months with a raft of tech…
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Real-time team collaboration in dry bulk shipping
Jenna Brown from Shipamax on how modern workplaces are evolving. With a historic role in the growth of modern…
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HMM puts its marker down for global status
Neil Dekker, container consultant at ClipperMaritime, assesses the big picture on the Korean carrier’s decision to reenter the Asia to…
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Change will come, but not unless we make it happen
Rashid Baba, chief commercial officer at Thuraya, writes for Splash on where shipping is today in terms of embracing digital…
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Why LNG as the ship fuel of the future is a massive red herring
Dr Tristan Smith from UCL Energy Institute takes issue with a feature we ran last week on France’s push to…
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