Helikon expands use of Voyager

Global Navigation Solutions (‘GNS’), the maritime services group, has announced that Helikon Shipping Enterprises, the London based Bulk Carr…

May 9, 2016 – Uncategorized

Time for a change, ready or not

Shipping guru and analyst par excellence Martin Stopford has had an idea that is a very simple and at the same time very complex. He wants to fom…

May 3, 2016 – Uncategorized

Life at Sea vs Life in Space

As a leading provider of navigational products and services, Global Navigation Solutions has a vested interest in the welfare of global seafarers…

April 26, 2016 – Uncategorized

E.R. Schiffahrt GmbH & Cie. KG Choose GNS ENC Bundle

Global Navigation Solutions (‘GNS’), the maritime services group, announces that it has agreed terms with E.R. Schiffahrt, one of the leadin…

April 26, 2016 – Uncategorized

Is there more to smarter shipping than more technology?

So bad have the dry bulk, offshore and container markets become that the industry seems to have accepted, if not yet fully embraced, the need for…

April 19, 2016 – Uncategorized

Evolution and survival require the embrace of change

The subjects of innovation, transparency, efficiency and regulation were all on the agenda at the DigitalShip Copenhagen conference. It was an a…

April 12, 2016 – Uncategorized

Yes we can! (Maybe)

With the political fervour in the US growing daily stronger it seemed appropriate that the 2016 Satellite show followed hard on the heels of t…

April 5, 2016 – Uncategorized

NYK LNG choose GNS bundle for London vessels

Global Navigation Solutions (‘GNS’), the maritime services group, announces that it has agreed terms with NYK LNG,one of the world’s lar…

March 29, 2016 – Uncategorized

A German shipowner walks into a bank…

Here is a joke which illustrates the seriousness of the problems affecting the German shipping market. Shipowner: “ABC Bank has just arrested m…

March 1, 2016 – Uncategorized