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The proposal by a group of leading shipping organisations for a $5bn R&D fund to see the development of alternative fuels for shipping sugge…

Those who hope that the dawn of a new decade will unleash a period of peace, growth and sustainability should probably look away now. In its late…

Tell the shipping industry it has a problem and it will likely reply ‘yes but which one?’ High fuel costs, toxic trade relationships, potenti…

The shipping industry is focussing more and more on pollution control and environmental performance in a bid to comply with sector regulation and…

A combination of advances in technology, including faster computer processing speeds, increased density and capability of computer storage and hi…

When we talk about shipping’s business model, what do we mean? An inefficient, debt-laden, asset-heavy industry mired in manual procedures, una…

It will be a rare fleet manager or marine superintendent who isn’t looking for ways to make year-on-year cost savings as we edge closer to 2020…

Watershed, Rubicon, Crossroads. Call it what you like, 2019 probably won’t go down as the one we remember in five or 10 years’ time. Instead …

Mr Bireshwar Kumar started his career as a sea-going officer, sailing on merchant vessels before working as a maritime consultant for the past 17…