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Swag at SMM: An alternative shipping confidence survey
I am a journalist so by definition a freeloader. In the three days and many kilometres around the 93,000 sq…
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Buoyant Posidonia paints its own picture of the markets
Athens airport this morning tells its own tale of the jamboree that was Posidonia. Slouched and decidely delicate with dark…
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Internet blackout brings light to the wifi debate
For a moment yesterday my quaint French Pyrenean town resembled something of an early ‘90s zombie flick. Citizens shuffled around,…
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Europe
Competing factions descend on London for highly charged MEPC
So the stage is set for what could be the most acrimonious gathering of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC)…
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Bunkering
Heated LNG red herring debate
Part of my job as an editor of a daily shipping news title is to generate debate. So when an…
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Operations
Battered owners dare to dream for the first time in a decade
Shipowners who had managed to survive the tumult of the past decade dared to peer out of the gloom during…
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Greater China
Marintec China showcases the future of shipbuilding
As the stands come down in Shanghai at Asia’s largest shipping show, attendees at this week’s Marintec China have had…
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Contributions
Where pigs can swim
The tit for tat between the republic of the Marshall Islands and the International Chamber of Shipping this week over…
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Dry Cargo
Today’s bargains, tomorrow’s noose
Shipping’s simple, especially dry bulk – one good year, two years bad. That was the advice I was given as…
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Greater China
China’s letter of serious intent
The letter of intent signed between state-backed CSSC and France’s CMA CGM for record-breaking 22,000 teu ships can be seen…
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Americas
The rise and fall of Vale as a shipowner
The rise and fall of Vale as a shipowner stands as another cautionary tale in the long line of failed…
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Greater China
Reflecting on the Tungs’ stunning sale of OOCL
Some stories in this shipping game are harder than others to remain objective about. The sale of Orient Overseas Container…
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Containers
Terminal operators allowing shippers to get away with murder
Shippers continue to put lives at risk by flouting cargo regulations. And they’ll carry on getting away with it as…
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Asia
Asian Exim banks throwing good money after bad
Throwing good money after bad – that does seem to be the modus operandi of arguably the two most powerful…
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Middle East
Bowled over again by poor crisis response
When it popped in my inbox it took a couple of watches to get my head around it. As I…
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Asia
Framing the future of shipping debate
Once again shipping and its digital transformation drew many readers’ attention this week on Splash. Frank Coles’ article yesterday elicited…
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Asia
Stellar Daisy: Contagion rather than containment
I woke on Saturday to the terrible news coming from Uruguay that the giant 266,000 dwt bulker had disappeared in…
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Containers
Who’s fooling who as alliance reshuffle falls tomorrow?
I imagine most Splash readers belong to one or another of the world’s main airline alliances. I’ve been a card…
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Asia
Singapore oil and gas inferno
The very real risk of contagion spreading across already battered offshore-related stocks on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) probably explains why…
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Containers
Better to burn out than to rust
“It’s better to burn out than to rust.” So wrote Neil Young back in the late 1970s in his great…
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