Contributions
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Reality check – What do you mean you want to revisit the contract?
How things have changed over the last few months. I recall many fund managers and companies reporting that there was…
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What the US presidential election harbours for shipping
With the United States presidential campaign season having started earlier this round and having become more of a circus than…
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Perfect storm or islands of opportunity?
Robin Kirkpatrick, from Global Air and Energy, surveys the OSV scene. Sadly, the industry has succumbed to the classic supply/demand…
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Things I think about when running: Hubs as opposed to ports
In one month and one day, I’ll be running the London Marathon with my fiancée, Eliza. In the run up…
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Cyber security roundtable highlights range of concerns
Details from a KVH convened cyber security gathering earlier this week. KVH Industries hosted maritime industry leaders for a frank…
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The curse of the Commodore’s hat
Got shares in Euronav? Sell them today! The current darling of tanker stocks might just have revealed very solid results…
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The tides of March
Concluding his trilogy of articles looking at the markets, Paul Slater, chairman of First International, is none too optimistic. The…
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Liner shipping – a tragedy of the commons?
I could have called this The Emperor’s Got No Clothes, but I will go with Charlton Heston’s line from the…
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Too much oil and not enough ships
Erik Broekhuizen from Poten & Partners charts how tankers got into such a sweet spot. Unlike many of the other…
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Why owners must embrace sustainable ship recycling
Dr Anil Sharma, president and CEO of GMS, the world’s largest cash buyer of ships, writes exclusively for Splash. Ship…
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Why newbuilding and scrap prices are key to understanding secondhand values
Dr Adam Kent from Maritime Strategies International joins the commercial dots. Anyone analysing secondhand vessel prices purely on the basis…
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Operational efficiency outweighs cost reduction when it comes to communications
A survey carried out by Futurenautics on behalf of Intelsat has some interesting results. Times are tough in shipping, but…
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Gas crewing conundrum
Mark Charman, CEO of Faststream Recruitment Group, on ensuring the incoming slew of LNG and LPG vessels have the proper…
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The most dangerous man in the industry
This is a true story; I have slightly tweaked the names and the geography. Quite a few years ago, I…
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Lowest of the low
I will not hide it from you, dear reader, 2016 will be worse than last year. What surprises me is…
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Shipbroking as a stepping-stone to shipowning? Delusional
Panos Patsadas, MD at Target Maritime Transport, reckons too many young men and women are becoming brokers for the wrong…
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Splash turns one: ‘A year that proved shipping investors can’t take anything for granted’
Many friends questioned my colleague Grant Rowles and I when we set about launching a global shipping news site. Last…
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Are we kidding? What is really happening in the offshore marine market?
When reading the proliferation of magazines and news sites, one gets caught up in the volume of news affecting the…
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Adam Smith and the shipowner
I would like to offer you a short quotation from Adam Smith’s masterwork, An Enquiry into the Wealth of Nations,…
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Things I think about while running: London
It was a genuinely fast and furious run up to today’s newsletter here at Splash. Next week the site celebrates…
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