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Metis Cyberspace Technology: Fragmented solutions hindering tech take-up
Shipping finally has a number of companies with forward-thinking managerial teams who believe that the only way to be competitive…
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SDSD: Shipbroking heads to the cloud
Ten days ago the maritime software development company SDSD launched V-Chartering – a new cloud chartering platform for wet and…
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Wind forecast to become a force in ship propulsion
In his weekly Splash feature chief correspondent Jason Jiang assesses what hurdles wind power faces as a credible source of…
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AXSMarine: Shipping 2.0
Shipping is in the midst of a new dot-com boom, argues the chief commercial officer of broking software firm AXSMarine…
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Big data: The top 5 priorities the maritime industry should know
Dutch website Shipbuilder has the following useful checklist for Splash readers. Big data. Many maritime organisations are preparing to start…
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Shipping leaders set course for digital future
Momentum is growing across sectors as leading companies collaborate to realise efficiencies through digitalization, writes Stuart Brewer, founder of Norway’s…
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Operational transparency: The dark side of shipping
Thomas Timlen gets the thoughts of Union Marine’s Vinay Gupta and Colin Ip from CaledonDenny explain how owners are missing…
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Where laytime fits into shipping’s great digitisation drive
Simon Francis, founder of online layime management tool Falmor, adds to our growing series on the future of shipping. There…
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RightShip: Warwick Norman’s departing message
As he prepares to step down at RightShip, Warwick Norman, the ship vetting platform’s CEO and founder, discussed with Maritime…
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Warwick Norman steps down at RightShip
Warwick Norman is stepping down from his position of CEO at Australian online vetting company RightShip. Norman, who has held the…
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DB Schenker buys into American online trucking startup
The ongoing digitisation of the freight transport industry continues with news German logistics giant DB Schenker has bought a $25m…
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Bitship: ship finance in the digital era
Dr Roar Adland, shipping chair professor at Norwegian School of Economics, muses how soon until ship finance digitises and we…
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Alibaba signs with CMA CGM
Chinese online retail giant Alibaba continues to make closer ties with the top names in container shipping. Following on from…
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Drones deployed to inspect Eni rigs
Sky Futures, a UK-based drone operator, has won a three-year contract to inspect the rigs owned by Italian energy giant…
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Technology and automation point the way to success for forwarders
Ferry Heilemann, CEO and co-founder of FreightHub, continues our series on how digitisation will effect freight transport. An ongoing debate…
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Humans still have the edge in shipping when it comes to complex deals
A couple of weeks back in this regular Friday column I weighed up how digitisation in freight transport could threaten…
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Smedvig Capital stumps up $12m for Xeneta
Xeneta, an ocean freight benchmarking and market intelligence software platform, has raised $12m in a Series B investment round led…
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Dr Martin Stopford on the future of shipping
The world’s most famous shipping analyst presents Splash readers with a compelling picture of the challenges facing the maritime industry…
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The human touch required in a shipping deal
Simon Francis, founder of online laytime startup Falmor, and a former Levelseas man, brings our shipping/digitisation week of contributions to…
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What’s a rig worth in today’s market?
Offshore drilling rigs have never been the simplest of assets to value, but in an illiquid market the valuation process…
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