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Navigating a new course with ECDIS
ECDIS is everywhere, but training and regulation have yet to catch up with its ubiquity onboard ship, meaning that mariners may not make the best use of the system, referring to it…
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A clearer view of the big picture
The shipping industry is in some ways, back where it was a decade ago. Uncertainty about what shape future environment regulations will look like and what impacts they will have on the…
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Data sharing will not save the planet
Perhaps it’s the after-effects of two years in which knowledge workers got to stay at home and manual workers worked, but suddenly the desire to share data and pool knowledge in the…
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Are Seafarers the Solution to Sustainability?
With so much attention on action to decarbonise the maritime economy, it seems obvious to include all possible stakeholders in the conversation. Which makes it curious that of all the voices crucial…
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Climb every mountain
According to the IEA, every data point showing the speed of change in energy use towards renewables can be countered by another showing the stubbornness of the status quo. The rapid but…
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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…
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Who put the D in ESG?
Finance made available on the basis of the principles of an environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy is, we are told, the future. The institutions that provide the funds are already lining…
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The answer is transparency, now what was the question?
As we all know by now, the world’s media attention can shift very quickly when bad news strikes. And the grounding of Ever Given wasn’t even particularly bad news; there was no…
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Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste
It was Britain’s favourite Briton (according to TV polls at least) who declaimed that faced with a crisis, one should make the best out of it. For lots of people the week…
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Humans are (still) key to managing the risks of digitalisation
Digitalisation and decarbonisation will be the defining issues for shipping over the next quarter of a century. But the scale of the change they create promises a third issue: how to manage…
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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