Strange days indeed…
It’s been an exciting seven days on MaritimeInsight, though it’s taken a while to get the words to the page. To start with, we finally learned what’s eating Jim Dodez and it…
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…
Intelsat EPIC under the spotlight
The era of HTS communications is coming ever closer, with players including Inmarsat, Iridium, Intelsat and newcomer O3B all planning launches of next generation satellite capacity in coming years. Just how much…
More threats (and opportunities) for the VSAT vendors
A final dispatch from the recent GVF seminar in London, not because it didn’t bear reporting sooner, more that it might serve as a springboard going forward. Amid optimistic forecasts of 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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Should PR Consultants writing OpEds under their own names disclose the clients they represent whose interests the OpEd article promotes?
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.