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Smarter money, smarter technology, hold the key to a cleaner shipping industry
Improving access to future fuels, upgrading technology onboard ship to smooth the adoption process, changes to customer behaviour and a willingness to pay for pollution; the shipping industry has a big to-do…
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Supply chain congestion poses health risks for shipping
Living as we are in unprecedented times, it’s little surprise to read that two factors continue to heighten the risk profile for shipping and seafarers. A combination of port congestion and the…
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Increased voyage efficiency can’t arrive soon enough
Congestion has been a fact of life in the shipping industry for years. Neither has it always been a dirty word. For spot trading ships, a strong market encourages charterers to take…
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Just grin and bear it?
First the good news. The Seafarers Happiness Index, published by the Mission to Seafarers, took a move upward in the second quarter of this year as a range of efforts to improve…
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Better technology for safer seafaring
Digitalisation is almost as close to the top of shipping industry priorities as its cousin decarbonisation. The two are inextricably linked, one the enabler of the other, or at least the means…
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Can shipping join the circular economy?
In case any doubt remained, it should be clear to everyone remotely involved in shipping that the next 20 years will be nothing like the last couple of decades. The decarbonisation agenda…
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Data, sensors and soft skills
As has regularly been observed in these pages, the next decade will be when data comes into its own as the vital differentiator between efficient, profitable shipping companies and the rest. As…
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A better class of people
Good leadership is hard to define but as the saying goes, you know it when you see it. In Norway, leadership calls for diversity, of gender, background and age, the first of…
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Be more Norway
Norway sets the bar high for the rest of the maritime industry when it comes to innovation, technology and investment in both. Centuries of shipping heritage, decades of oil and gas engineering…
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Yes we can (and so can you)
Decarbonisation is on the minds of every vessel owner and operator, it is becoming increasingly important to consider digitalisation as the enabler and to understand how these two topics are related. Proven…
About
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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In April, wind power generated more electricity than coal in the US for the second month in a row, according to @EIAgov data. Wind beat coal once before in April last year, but this time it’s by a much larger margin and for two consecutive months.
Amazon will not now begin services on Project Kuiper until 2025 at the earliest - having aimed to start deploying more 3,200 #LEO satellites in 1H 2024 - aiming to commence beta trials with potential customers including Verizon says @SpaceNews_Inc
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