Editor’s Picks
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Greater China
Hong Kong allows unrestricted crew changes
Hong Kong has made the biggest concessions in the crew change saga, making it possible for all seafarers calling the…
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Contributions
After the flood
Back to normal, business as usual, regular working. All phrases to which millions of people have clung to during the…
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Europe
Covid-19 brings unique opportunity to reshape maritime as a more attractive career prospect
The working conditions created ashore by Covid-19 could serve as a springboard to making shipping a more attractive career opportunity,…
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Operations
Shipmanagers accelerate crew repatriation
More and more reports of shipmanagers carrying out successful crew changes are filtering in to the Splash newsdesk. More than…
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Europe
‘Put a price on carbon to make it profitable to order a zero emission vessel by 2030’: Lasse Kristoffersen
Members of the Getting to Zero Coalition made the case for a carbon tax on shipping at a high-level webinar…
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Tech
Number of shipping cyber attacks leaps 400% since February
Israeli maritime cyber security experts Naval Dome claim there has been a 400% spike in shipping-targeted hacks since February this…
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Operations
How training has changed during Covid-19
The future of training is the focus for the latest episode of the Maritime CEO Tech Leader Series sponsored by…
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Containers
Inactive box fleet hits new high
A staggering one third of HMM’s fleet is currently inactive as the number of out of work boxships around the…
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Americas
Ridgebury quits the VLCC trades
Bob Burke-led Ridgebury Tankers has exited the VLCC trades with multiple broking houses reporting the sale of the company’s last…
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Europe
Rodolphe Saadé vows to make CMA CGM carbon neutral by 2050
Rodolphe Saadé was among a high-level Zoom panel speaking yesterday at the United Nations Global Compact gathering during which he…
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Shipyards
Qatar’s record-breaking ship order: the big picture
The global shipbuilding paradigm has changed dramatically in the space of just 24 hours. Bluechip owners wanting their VLCCs or…
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Operations
Chartered flights see crew changes take off
Crew changes are beginning to filter in with two weeks to go until the final deadline set by seafarer unions…
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Contributions
LNG shipping at the bottom of the cycle
Chief correspondent Jason Jiang looks at the gas trades and ponders when prospects will improve. The outbreak of coronavirus has…
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Contributions
A word search for dry bulk operators
Mr Prospector has used his time in lockdown to come up with some fun puzzles for the dry bulk community…
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Operations
One in three car carriers projected to be out of work
While the worst might have passed in terms of automotive consumer demand in Western countries, the pure car, truck carrier…
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Operations
RightShip scraps ratings system in favour of new safety score
RightShip will scrap its ratings system in favour of a new safety score in the biggest shake-up at the maritime…
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Tankers
VLCCs sprint back up the peak
Robert Macleod no longer needs to make a trip to Intersport to pick up a pair of trainers as VLCCs…
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Environment
BIMCO president stresses the need to remain focused on green priorities
Twelve months into her two-year tenure as the first woman president of BIMCO, the world’s largest international shipping association, Şadan…
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Containers
Six out of the top 10 carriers have now sought state aid since the start of the coronavirus pandemic
News yesterday that Pacific International Lines (PIL) is seeking a de facto state bailout has brought into sharp focus the…
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Containers
Splash Extra: Boxship tonnage providers under pressure
The troubled state of many of the world’s boxship tonnage providers is the lead story in the May issue of…
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