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Singapore collaboration to develop autonomous vessels

April 25th, 20180 Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Maritime Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Technology Centre for...

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Wärtsilä still looking at Rolls-Royce’s marine business

April 25th, 20180 Acquisitive Finnish ship technology giant Wärtsilä has not given up the chase for Rolls-Royce’s marine business. In an interview with Reuters, Wärtsilä’s CEO...

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Veterans appointed to head up new autonomous shipping line

April 25th, 20180 Massterly, the new autonomous shipping joint venture created by Wilhelmsen and Kongsberg, has appointed Tom Eystø as managing director and Per Brinchmann from...

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Former BP boss Browne joins Israeli maritime startup’s board

April 25th, 20180 Israeli maritime analytics startup Windward has managed to get the former CEO of energy giant BP, Lord John Browne, to join its board. Browne has been an investor in...

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OOCL teams with Microsoft to develop AI shipping solutions

April 24th, 20180 Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) and Hong Kong’s Orient Overseas Container Line Limited (OOCL) have joined forces to look at how to apply artificial intelligence (AI)...

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Not your father’s weather routeing

April 23rd, 20180 A new generation of technology is improving schedule reliability, saving money and reducing carbon emissions, says Penny Haire from Tidetech. How widely technology...

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Six ways to spot an ICO scam

April 20th, 20180 With shipping initial coin offerings raining in the team at Data Driven Investor provide a useful checklist to sort the wheat from the chaff. Earlier this year in...

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Venezuela requiring foreign ships to pay for services in crypto currency

April 19th, 20180 Foreign ships in Venezuela will have to use the recently created cryptocurrency, Petro, to pay for services while in the South American country. And that could put...

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E-certificates in demand

April 17th, 20180 Class society DNV GL has been running pilots on electronic certificates for several years, achieving IMO compliance and winning the endorsement of many flag states, 53...

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Shipwaves: Getting India to move digitally

April 16th, 20180 Shipwaves, India’s first online marketplace for ocean freight, is changing shipping on the sub-continent. According to Athahar Mohammed, co-founder of Shipwaves,...

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Fast tracking digital development through big data competence

April 12th, 20180 Below is a speech given by Captain Pradeep Chawla from Anglo-Eastern Ship Management at yesterday’s Digital Ship conference taking place during Sea Japan in...

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Swivel Software: All-encompassing view of cargo movement

April 12th, 20180 Swivel Software, a Hong Kong-based e-solution provider to the logistics industry, has geared up to take on the tidal wave of digital opportunities transforming the...

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Oslo: The gateway to Silicon Fjords

April 11th, 20180 In her new role at Norwegian startup platform Oslo Business Region, Birgit Liodden, the former boss of Nor-Shipping, writes exclusively for Splash today exhorting those...

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Rotterdam Port Fund bets on batteries

April 6th, 20180 Investor Rotterdam Port Fund has taken an interest in EST‐Floattech, a Dutch technology company that develops and supplies energy storage systems for fully electric...

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Internet blackout brings light to the wifi debate

April 6th, 20182 For a moment yesterday my quaint French Pyrenean town resembled something of an early ‘90s zombie flick. Citizens shuffled around, slack jawed, morosely. Occasionally...

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LNG not shipping’s green panacea, as IEA warns of ‘huge disruption’ over looming 2020 sulphur cap
A report out this week suggests LNG is not the panacea for shipping’s fuel concerns now that... Apr 19th, 2018 inEnvironment
Sinokor to take over 30 feeder boxships from Vroon
South Korean owner Sinokor Merchant Marine is taking over a fleet of 30 feeder containerships from... Apr 19th, 2018 inContainers
Weekly Broker: En bloc deals dominate
Activities in the secondhand bulker sale and purchase market kept up a steady trend this week after... Apr 19th, 2018 inOperations
Grindrod completes historic sale of its bunker division
South African transport giant Grindrod has sold its bunker subsidiary, Unicorn Bunker Services, for... Apr 19th, 2018 inBunkering
Lessons for effective and sustainable safety communications in the logistics industry
Des McGowan from Insync ponders whether we should focus on safety compliance or safety... Apr 19th, 2018 inContributions
International Transport Forum calls for greater, more harmonised use of port-based incentives
Port-based financial incentives to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions currently remain... Apr 18th, 2018 inEnvironment

Tsakos finds a buyer for its oldest VLCC

Klaveness launches dedicated new combination carrier company

Vincent Bolloré charged with corruption

Troubled kamsarmax arrested and set for auction

Vantage Drilling jackup awarded Gabon contract by Total

Erin Energy files for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

McDermott management stands firm in face of growing Subsea 7 overtures

Norvic Shipping: Fleet about to broach the century mark

19 tankers being held by Houthis in Yemen

KOTC splashes for four MRs at Hyundai Mipo

Former BP boss Browne joins Israeli maritime startup’s board

KOTC tanker fleet set to double through to 2040

Captain of bulker that sparked huge Indonesian oil spill faces lengthy jail sentence

Sembcorp Marine and GTT sign licensing agreement

MOL consolidates logistics business under new brand

Singapore collaboration to develop autonomous vessels

Shenghang Shipping looks to establish financial leasing arm

Lawsuits pile up against embattled Noble Group

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding acquires major stake in domestic bulker owner

CSC Phoenix reports risk of capacity shortage

Maersk and Sea Machines to trial AI situational awareness system