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Day of the Seafarers and the urgent need for training
Rather than disappearing, #seafarers will become even more important to the business of safely operating and navigating ships during the #energytransition of coming decades. The challenge for policymakers and regulators is stark: is it better to…
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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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Maritime training in a time of COVID
COVID-19 has impacted every area of shipping, and nowhere more severely than in training of seafarers. Maritime education and training levels have been reduced by both operators and training institutions. At the same…
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Shipping’s data genie is out of the bottle
The pandemic has changed much and yet the maritime industry has so far at least escaped the kind of structural impacts affecting other sectors. This is in part due to shipping’s below-the-radar…
An outbreak of speaking truth to power
With hundreds of thousands of seafarers unable to leave their ships because of COVID restrictions, the industry has appealed for help and with a few exceptions been ignored. This is not for want of trying; the efforts of shipping’s trade and professional bodies have sounded warning after warning, with little by way of response.
After the flood
Back to normal, business as usual, regular working. All phrases to which millions of people have clung during the last six months as the COVD-19 pandemic upended predictions of what the world would be like in 2020.
Shipping is not having a ‘Weinstein moment’, but maybe it should
With the debate raging about the conduct of those in high office and positions of power and how to hold them to account, it seems we are in autumn of discontent. And…
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New skills, old problems: the crewing crisis in a competency context
The shipping industry has a worsening crewing crisis. But like other crises, it’s one that is bad, but not severe enough to stop ships trading or interrupt world trade. The degree of…
Screaming for bandwidth? The shipowner and service provider perspective
When Satellite Network Operator Intelsat hosted a workshop in Copenhagen earlier this month, it brought together local players for a timely briefing of the VSAT/HTS landscape. MaritimeInsight was asked to moderate an informal…
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
Delighted to be nominated (against my will, mind ) as one of the 'Top 10 Leaders Shaping the Future of Maritime Industry in 2024' I just want to know how the emails keep getting past my spam filter.