Contributions
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Moving toward cleaner fuels: Complications, controversy and (some) confusion
The debate over emissions from commercial ships is based on Annex VI of the MARPOL Convention, pushed forward by the…
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Shipping still lost at sea when it comes to big data
The world of container shipping is going through a prolonged period of instability due to oversupply of new ships entering…
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Live Animal Export: Shipping fever
Dr Lynn Simpson, a leading Australian livestock expert, highlights the biggest killer of cattle at sea. “Shipping fever” is the well…
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Live Animal Export: Shitty, shitty sheep
Dr Lynn Simpson discusses an issue that kills large numbers of live export sheep. Quite frankly, sheep give me the shits! “More…
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Shipping by sea? You, your cargo and your embattled carriers
Hard not to feel sorry for the shippers, whose cargo is stuck on the container vessels operated by Hanjin Shipping.…
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Ballast water treatment systems: invest or scrap?
Does the ratification of the Ballast Water Management Convention spell gloom or boom for the dry bulk market? Will Fray…
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Live Animal Export: Blindsided
Dr Lynn Simpson on dealing with animals with eye troubles in transit. I recently went to a charity ball for…
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Hanjin’s demise, commoditisation and a missed opportunity
Mahim Khanna, a regional director with Dutch firm TBA, has his say. This year will go down as the year…
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Live Animal Export: Reject the rejects
How come so many animals that clearly do not meet the rules are still being herded on ships and transported?…
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The Hanjin legacy
Paul Slater from First International Corp warns there’s plenty more pain to come. The Hanjin bankruptcy came as no surprise…
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Shipping danger: The US pivot to Asia
Clearly the maritime shipping business will begin to pull out of its depression if the world economy begins a strong…
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Tanker torpor
What would it take to see VLCC rates pick up again? Jason Jiang explores. The VLCC market has taken a…
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Welcome to the Hanjin California
Frazer Hunt, a partner at Australian law firm Mills Oakley, taps The Eagles in charting the chaos sparked by the…
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Post-Hanjin, there’s a need for a global container rescue fund
The demise of Hanjin has come as a surprise to many market participants. Mostly, because the signals given by banks…
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Not on the money
Greg O’Connell from ShipMoney says shipping needs to enter the 21st century when it comes to crew payments. Conservative estimates…
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No cures for self-inflicted ailments
Tim Routh from China Sea Rates on lessons to be learned from the Hanjin crisis. We on average see between…
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Hats don’t help seafarers – but you can
If you want to help seafarers, don’t patronise them by knitting a hat, Intermanager’s secretary-general (and former seafarer) Kuba Szymanski…
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The debate over public financing of private ports
Professor Hercules Haralambides is happy the European Commission is coming around to his point of view. After years of debating,…
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Live Animal Export: Born on the high seas
Dr Lynn Simpson explains what can happen when preganant animals travel on livestock carriers: “The morale of the ship plummets…
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The growing challenge of illegal waste dumping
Vincent Favier, CEO of Ecoslops, on owners’ failure to handle waste materials properly. Slops and sludges are a by-product of…
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