Giants of the Sea, published late last year by industry veteran John McCown, Jr. is a book about bigger and bigger vessels, with unique insights into a group of visionary larger-than-life shipowners who contemplated, designed and ultimately...
Punit Oza, Executive Director of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA), examines the impact of digitalisation and disruption on disputes in the industry.
“Speed kills” is a slogan familiar to anyone who drives a car and is constantly urged upon us by the authorities, anxious that we observe speed limits. It is not such a bad injunction to marine people, either, and not entirely directed at those...
Shipping is indispensable for delivering the world’s needs and wants. Yet, just as the oil, coal, and steel sectors have faced pressure in recent years, our role in the climate crisis is now under much closer scrutiny.
Negotiations continue between the Suez Canal administration and the various parties which represent the owners of the giant containership Ever Given, the ship and her cargo continue to broil in the growing summer heat of the waterway.
The 2021 navigation season on the Great Lakes is well underway and after a disappointing year in 2020 there is optimism about 2021.