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Crew retention is the tip of the digital iceberg
Almost 12 months ago an ambitious project began to take shape. Roger Adamson of Stark Moore Macmillan, Vizada (now Astrium Services) and two of the largest crewing agencies in the world, Philippine…
A year has gone by…
…since I started MaritimeInsight and March again finds me in Stamford once again, where the Connecticut Maritime Association moves and shakes for the next three days. Over the last year I’ve tried…
Managing the data shipboard load and creating low/high end opportunities
In the first part of my interview with Roger Adamson, the Stark Moore McMillan ceo laid out some of the issues that face the bandwidth vendors in 2013 and beyond. In the…
Ku or Ka? Wide or Narrow? Clarity or… More on Intelsat’s maritime ambitions
In the second part of my interview with James Collett, Director Mobility Services at Intelsat, we talk more on coverage, capacity and confidence from the buyer’s and user’s viewpoints. There is also…
Epic stuff – James Collett on Intelsat, Inmarsat and what really matters in maritime
To leafy Chiswick in West London and the offices of Intelsat for a wide-ranging conversation with James Collett, late of Inmarsat and now Director of Mobility Services at Intelsat, charged with building…
GX projections keep Inmarsat bandwagon rolling along
Last week’s Inmarsat Investor Day has received reasonably positive reviews from analysts and observers, with the headlines taken by the deal with CISCO to build the ‘enablement platform’ for GX (which may…
Marlink: Inmarsat Global Xpress part of the mix – but not at any price
As DigitalShip’s Rob O’Dwyer pointed out at the Marlink-Astrium SMM press conference, without Marlink, Inmarsat is going to struggle to sell its Global Xpress VSAT offering. But as O’Dwyer also noted, Marlink…
Staying in the game is more important than the shape of the ball
Inmarsat was far from the only game in town at the recent SMM widget-fest. Its partners and suppliers were also keen to have their say and reinforce the theory that this will…
Speak loudly (and carry a small stick)
Inmarsat’s ‘Maritime Update’ at SMM was clearly for the benefit of partners but there were broader messages too, aimed at bolstering its position against the emerging competition in the maritime space. Hence…
The more things change…
The future is already here, sci-fi sage William Gibson once mused, it just isn’t very well distributed yet. He might just have been talking about maritime satcoms if such a subject wasn’t…
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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