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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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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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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…
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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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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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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…
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.