Voyager Blogs

Welfare, social mobility and the future of seafaring

The last 18 months have shown the collective inability of the shipping industry – charities, corporates, unions and even the IMO – to…

Digital shipping takes a lesson in tough love

What can shipping learn from the airline industry? Not a new question certainly but one whose importance has not diminished as owners struggle to…

Going short?

The world might still be battling to control COVID-19 but the signs are that the global economy is ready to roar once more. Record prices for som…

Shipping's data genie is out of the bottle

The pandemic has changed much and yet the maritime industry has so far at least escaped the kind of structural impacts affecting other sectors. T…

Who put the D in ESG?

Finance made available on the basis of the principles of an environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy is, we are told, the future. The …

The answer is transparency, now what was the question?

As we all know by now, the world’s media attention can shift very quickly when bad news strikes. And the grounding of Ever Given wasn’t even …

Digital survey respondents predict a bounceback year and say that digitalisation is the overwhelming trend for investment and upskilling After th…

Play your cards right

“There will be no cheap fuel in future” is a phrase that should arguably be repeated mantra-like at the start of every discussion about decar…

Digitalisation and decarbonisation will be the defining issues for shipping over the next quarter of a century. But the scale of the change they …