Twelve things we learnt this year

It’s been a fascinating year for shipping, in spite, or perhaps because of the poor state of the markets. With the exception of the tanker s…

December 21, 2015 – Uncategorized

But who will guard the guards themselves?

“We’re on the cusp of a very interesting decade on the seas and oceans,” Satellite Applications Catapult consultant and former UK Natio…

December 15, 2015 – Uncategorized

A match made in orbit

In a previous article we looked at how an individual company is trying to leverage an open API (Application Program Interface) platform to bri…

December 2, 2015 – Uncategorized

Too much data? Try some better information

Ecosystem is a word with a number of interpretations but in its digital sense is defined by Wikipedia as ‘a distributed, adaptive, open soci…

November 28, 2015 – Uncategorized

Smoke signals and mixed messages from China

China is sending the shipping market a raft of mixed messages and the smoke doesn’t look like clearing any time soon. To the downside, the s…

November 25, 2015 – Uncategorized

Uber, not Kodak, should be the model for shipping

We have examined the impact – real and potential – of disruptive technology on shipping in some recent articles, but how does the industry…

October 9, 2015 – Uncategorized

People first at last

When a body as technical as the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) says that people are probably more important to s…

September 28, 2015 – Uncategorized

Counting on a resolution to climate change confusion

The resounding success that was the second London International Shipping Week was a timely reminder that for all the apparent threats to Londo…

September 22, 2015 – Uncategorized

Who controls shipping and why it matters to finance

“Who are the world’s largest shipowners?” asked Stavros Tsolakis, MPA Professor of Maritime Economics at the Singapore Management Univer…

September 16, 2015 – Uncategorized