Strait Talk
A look back on three decades of change in liner shipping
Singapore is making the right moves to roll with these changes, but who knows what other challenges will come to container shipping?
Abandoned seafarers: an unacceptable face of the shipping industry
The issue often involves unscrupulous owners, shell companies, ineffective flag states and corrupt crewing agencies
Decarbonisation schemes are generating hot air
IMO is trying to come up with a net-zero strategy that has a chance of being generally accepted
Geopolitics overshadows the shipping industry
“EVENTS, dear boy, events,” was reportedly British prime minister Harold MacMillan’s answer to the question, posed by a journalist back in the 1960s, of what was most likely to blow a government off c...
Issue of decarbonisation to dominate talks at Singapore Maritime Week
But much of the industry remains preoccupied with the newly implemented European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, and would prefer a simple levy on bunker consumption
Using AI to reduce collisions at sea is a good idea, up to a point
A recent report on a collision between two relatively small ships in northern European waters should provide food for thought for anyone involved in the operation of vessels.
Stopping bullying and harassment at sea by being kind
LAST year, a survey by ship manager Danica found that one in 20 seafarers – “roughly one on every ship” – reported having experienced bullying, while 4 per cent felt they had been discriminated agains...
Red Sea could be a seafarer no-go area following crew killings
IT WAS inevitable. If you keep on firing deadly weapons at people, sooner or later, you will kill them.
EU’s volatile emissions-trading scheme will soon cost Asian shipowners big money
ASIAN shipowners with vessels sailing to and from Europe could soon be paying one billion euros (S$1.45 billion) a year in total once the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) kicks in full...
Protecting the welfare of the seafarer
The focus of this week’s column was going to be on seafarer welfare, which was the subject of a conference I attended last week. It still will be, but it is not possible to talk about it without menti...
