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Ship managers are just like politicians. Whatever question you ask them, you get the answer they want you to hear. They are hardly alone in th…

A combination of formal and tacit knowledge can produce better results in the shipping industry, writes Torger Reve I grew up in Farsund…

Martin Stopford is right. Or at least, when he said recently that shipping needs a Steve Jobs, perhaps what he really meant is that the indust…

In the final part of our review of the German shipping industry, we ask the big question; does the maritime cluster have a future and if so, w…

In our first piece on the prospects for the German shipping market (http://greatcircle.co/article/german-shipping-getting-smarter-survive), we…

The opportunity to visit the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is one that any traveller should enjoy. Sprawling, but with many local centre…

As the industry settles in for the silly season there was still plenty of serious news, with plans for new tracking services, potential choice…

If there is a compound word for the degree of suffering a shipping community can go through before it experiences some kind of recovery, Germa…

Compared to other transport modes, the shipping industry is a comparative latecomer to the concept of integrated risk analysis and mitigation.…