Maritime HTS: revolution or business as usual?
To mark the publication of its most recent maritime analysis, Maritime Satellite Markets on Cusp of Bandwidth Revolution, I asked Senior NSR Analyst Brad Grady to give MaritimeInsight readers an introduction to…
Futurenautics, e-nautics and the shape of maritime technology to come…
Research considering the future of shipping is flavour of the moment, but argues guest columnist Roger Adamson of Stark Moore McMillan, it fails to get to grips with technology. Luckily there’s an…
Kicking and screaming – and that’s just the shipowners
With apologies for the hiatus, I had to spend some time attending to client work, hence the radio silence from www.maritimeinsight.com. The summer seemed to give me a certain amount of cover…
‘Following a ship around with a satellite beam is not a business’
In part two of my conversation with consultant, analyst and blogger Tim Farrar, we dive a little deeper into the undergrowth: what the HTS upgrade path looks like and how to tell…
Lights out for the territory
During last week’s Nor-Shipping when the talk was mostly of offshore support vessels and optimisation, a small but significant nugget slipped into the public domain. Amid all the kite-flying about Arctic shipping,…
Not the end of history: some ruminations on maritime communications
Tim Farrar is an analyst and blogger who has been covering the satellite industry since the mid-1990s. We had crossed paths before, notably discussing his End of History blog and when he posted…
Who’s afraid of disruptive change?
Guest contributor Kevin Tester of Marine IT and Electronics has kindly shared this post written to cover the recent Gordon Hodge Memorial Lecture given by Nick Lambert of the UKHO. Lambert makes…
A Rake Too Far?
Trying to keep my head above water pre-Nor-Shipping but I was passed this blog post by a longtime colleague who drew a parallel with the Inmarsat Service Enablement Platform which will manage…
So poke me. Do seafarers really need always-on communications at sea?
In the second part of my interview with Intermanager Secretary General Kuba Szymanski we get off topic. That is to say, beyond Intermanager’s work with VSAT vendors and into an area of…
Smarter shipping means having communications you can rely on
The opportunity for a conversation with Intermanager Secretary General Kuba Szymanski is not to be missed, but you do have to pick your moment. True, he is to be seen on many…
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Neville Smith
Maritime Media Consultant to a roster of international shipping industry clients. Former maritime journalist with 16 years’ experience reporting the shipping and marine insurance markets and former Deputy Editor at Lloyd’s List, I assist clients with matching their communication needs to publications and media channels that gain them their desired level of exposure.
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