Reinventing the maritime IT department – and why it can’t come soon enough
The trip to Athens and the DigitalShip conference was time well spent. Not only was the affair free from score-settling and rabble rousing, it had a practical programme reflecting the state of…
What happens in Rotterdam, Singapore, Athens, Houston…
The publication last week of ShipServ’s annual survey on the use of e-commerce and social media in shipping immediately put me in mind of one of my favourite pieces of internet video.…
SmartShipping – Singapore Shipping
Next month sees the shipping city of Singapore get smarter. SmartShipping, the NHST event returns for its second year on October 18, promising to bring together some of the industry’s most creative…
You’ve never had it so good – as long as you aren’t at sea
To judge by many of the presentations at the Global VSAT Forum event in London last week, the shipping industry has never had it so good – in terms of communications at…
It’s not (just) about the money
So what did we learn from the first day of the GVF conference in London? Enough for plenty of future blog posts – but the over-riding takeaway from Wednesday was that satcom…
Global VSAT a regional game, says NSR
Satellite sector analyst Northern Sky has released a research note on the announcement by Intelsat of the EPIC high throughput satellite platform. And while NSR agrees that the launch signals a no-going…
When a Tom Hanks movie just isn’t enough
Proving there is absolutely no-one like an American for a highly developed sense of bathos, it seems that more than half the crew of Maersk Alabama have decided that resisting pirates, being…
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You know it when you see it – how innovation is back on the agenda
Lloyd’s List’s Liz McCarthy was one of the few journalists to give the CMA session on best operational and financial practices a fair crack of the whip. Despite the fact that the…
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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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