Contributions
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TPP: Help for shipping or another mirage?
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would at first glance appear to increase trade and thereby be beneficial to shipping. However, a…
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Copper is still king. So is China
The shipping industry still looks to commodities as barometers of its own future, and the global economy, generally. Copper is…
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Shipping’s intransigence gives regulators the whip hand
Copenhagen is a very, very green place. So much so that yesterday evening as an electric ferry, comandeered by Danish…
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The El Faro blame game begins
It is said that the struggle to improve on safety at sea “progresses from sinking to sinking”. It is likely…
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Umbrella tactics to fight cyber crime
A problem for a journalist attending this week’s Danish Maritime Forum is the insistence on Chatham House rules, where what…
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Red tape, green wash and chequered flags
Diane Gilpin from the Smart Green Shipping Alliance suggests shipping can learn from Formula One. The law is an ass.…
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Glass half full: Clay Maitland
Back in the day, as they say, it was a commonplace (particularly in England) that ‘things have to get worse,…
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Why there’s nothing surprising about Daiichi Chuo’s demise
The surprising thing for me about the demise of Daiichi Chuo Kisen Kaisha was that we weren’t all talking about…
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Is marine reinsurance set for a crisis?
As many of us would remember, about 10 years ago, we learned a lesson. The world learned that repackaged mortgage…
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The times they are a-changin’
Shell’s decision to abandon the Burger J project, along with its entire Arctic exploration program, comes immediately after the revelation…
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Petty-wise, pound foolish: Are breaches of ISPS Code minimally significant?
Maritime consultant Thomas Timlen explains why the downplaying breaches of international maritime security measures can have globally catastrophic consequences. I…
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Are we closing in on a Volkswagen moment in shipping?
The haze from illegal fires in Indonesia yet again descended on Singapore and KL, so not much concern here with…
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No comment: Five tips to working with the shipping media
There are few business sectors as insular or as tight-knit as shipping, and few where reputation means as much —…
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Three shipping champions emerge in Italy
Nicola Capuzzo was among 3,000 guests at last Friday’s Shipbrokers and Shipagents Dinner held in Genoa. The Italian shipping industry…
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After the Lord Mayor’s show
Shipping calendars these days are so frenzied that as soon as one event ends, a raft of others hove into…
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A seasonal fall
Ship finance expert Paul Slater is not at all optimistic about the shipping markets. As shipowners and investors return from…
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Myanmar: Headwinds or progress?
Over the last few weeks we have seen several significant developments within Myanmar, and I thought it appropriate to give…
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RBS quitting leaves huge hole in London’s shipping claims
Back in the late 1970s and the early ‘80s as CFO at Klaveness I was a very, very regular visitor…
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Online or cut off?
Should broadband be available to all at sea? Seafarers have their say. Poor connectivity is the single largest factor disincentivising…
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Industry divided on the connectivity debate
Unsurprisingly owners and managers have different needs from maritime communication suppliers than seafarers. Maritime communications spent a long time being…
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