December 18, 2020
Beijing set to reverse ship recycling ban
China is looking at reopening its ship recycling yards to foreign owners from as early as next year. Chinese shipbreakers…
December 18, 2020
Top of the in-tray for Toft at MSC
So after nearly 13 months to stew over how he might reinvent Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC), Soren Toft’s gardening leave…
December 18, 2020
December 2020 Review
The 14,000 teu ONE Apus made headlines across the world after it got battered in a storm in the Pacific…
December 18, 2020
2020 Annual Review
The coronavirus pandemic dominated every facet of the shipping industry, sending markets in a tailspin, providing logistical headaches and upending…
December 18, 2020
‘Tis the season for awards
Splash Extra is madly in love with awards and the ceremonies that follow, not anything like our founding fathers who…
December 18, 2020
The Raspberries of the tanker sector
The Shipping Academy Award for biggest gamble of the year goes to Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud colloquially…
December 18, 2020
Containers hog the limelight
Equipment of the year at our inaugural, tongue in cheek Shipping Academy Awards goes to the forty-foot container, the first…
December 18, 2020
Analyst Abstract
Tankers Aframaxes, the workhorses of the tanker sector, seem especially troubled in the current malaise hitting the crude segment. Last…
December 18, 2020
No office parties bring more Christmas sales
The last month was not the gentle tail-off to Christmas that we are used to in most years. Perhaps with…
December 18, 2020
Which sectors will fare best and worst next year?
Throughout October and November - a period of time when container shipping was smashing records while crude tankers suffered -…
December 18, 2020
Tracking abandoned seafarers
It was on a family trip to Wales that Matthew Ader became engrossed and captivated in Ian Urbina’s bestseller The…
December 18, 2020
Key Shipping Statistics
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