Opinions & Analysis

Let’s face it: The world as we know it has ended.

It has been a tumultuous few months, with public health worries and economic uncertainty. As the COVID-19 crisis continues, it’s continuing to affect more and more industries in ways we never might have previously imagined.

Dr Martin Stopford, eminent shipping economist and President of Clarkson Research Services, believes that the Covid-19 pandemic could prove to be the catalyst that forces shipping to undergo the radical adjustments needed if it is to get anywhere...

With the Indian government realising the value of the country’s inland waterways to its domestic transport system cargo and passenger traffic is expected to increase substantially.

The Hambantota International Port (HIP) is the island nation's newest Port in a mere 10 to 12nm from the major East-West shipping route linking the Suez Canal and the Malacca Straits.(

“How on earth did they manage to do that?” Such might have been an appropriate reaction upon watching that spectacular Facebook record of the container ship demolishing half the cranes in a South Korean port earlier this month.

The crew change crisis that has developed with the COVID-19 pandemic will need more than just coordination of port and government authorities with shipowners and managers as there is a huge logistics issue of getting seafarers to the points of...

Late yesterday morning (March 18) Maritime Safety Queensland (MSQ) banned all commercial ships from entering ports in Queensland if the ship, or any person onboard, has been in any country outside of Australia within the last 14-days. Shipping...

The pilot could barely contain his astonishment as he recounted the exchange with the master as he reached the bridge of the ship he had just boarded.

The Paris Agreement was aiming to bring forward a more global inclusive regime debatably, the bottom-up inspiration by Paris Agreement could lead IMO to highlight ‘NDCs of shipping industry’.