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The invisible industry?
The industry needs to find a solution to the challenge keeping people on ships safe and allowing them the same human rights as anybody else.
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Clearing a path to decarbonisation
As has been observed before, shipping is subject to a ‘licence to operate’, implicitly granted by a wide group of stakeholders. There are many moving parts to this arrangement but the newest…
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Are regional regulations really such a terrible idea?
The things that work well and are easy to use tend to become those that endure. Things that are difficult to understand and get to grips with tend to fail and sooner…
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.
Don’t sail faster, sail better
Now we know for certain that not all risks are created equal, the shipping industry faces a fundamental question; how does it make the necessary changes to be sustainable and profitable in a fundamentally changed world?
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.
Port cities seek strategy for clean, connected maritime sector
Ships and ports have a symbiotic relationship and port cities are beginning to wake up to the fact that their future prosperity relies on better integration between the port, its customers and the wider community.
Who is driving, and to where?
When we talk about shipping’s business model, what do we mean? An inefficient, debt-laden, asset-heavy industry mired in manual procedures, unable to leverage data or achieve genuine innovation perhaps? That is one…
Are we through the looking glass on sustainability in shipping?
As I write [24/9] , the #GretaThunberg Twitter stream I just created is updating too fast for me to read it. The response to this teenage climate protester is unprecedented; as is…
Does shipping need a licence to sail?
Compliance with regulation is considered as a license to operate in the shipping industry. For good reasons, most owners and operators can assume that even if regulations are formulated to provide a…
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.
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