Voyager Blogs

Articles and features discussing the latest news and trends affecting the maritime industry as well as latest updates from Voyager Worldwide

An optimist’s guide to digitalisation

The COVID pandemic brought digitalisation to the fore, forcing societies to embrace new ways of working, studying and connecting, adopting digita…

January 26, 2022 – Voyager News, Voyager Blogs

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…

January 20, 2022 – Voyager News, Voyager Blogs

A Happy New Year? You Never Know

Shipping markets are like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get. You might end up with toothache or get a massive sugar r…

January 13, 2022 – Voyager News, Voyager Blogs

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…

December 16, 2021 – Voyager News, Voyager Blogs

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 t…

November 22, 2021 – Voyager News, Voyager Blogs

Are Seafarers the Solution to Sustainability?

With so much attention on action to decarbonise the maritime economy, it seems obvious to include all possible stakeholders in the conversation. …

November 3, 2021 – Voyager News, Voyager Blogs

Climb every mountain

With the COP 26 climate conference only weeks away, the shipping industry is increasing its focus on the business not just of reducing greenhouse…

October 20, 2021 – Voyager News, Voyager Blogs

Tell me that you want me

Regular readers of this blog will have long recognised that the challenges facing the shipping industry amount to generational rather than cyclic…

September 30, 2021 – Voyager News, Voyager Blogs

The energy transition faces up to a capacity crunch (or two)

If we didn’t know already, the period of rapid energy and technology transition facing shipping will have significant impacts. Costs, asset val…

September 23, 2021 – Voyager News, Voyager Blogs