Category: Operations

  • Synergy promotes autonomous vegetable growing on ships

    Synergy promotes autonomous vegetable growing on ships Synergy Marine Group has become one of the first adopters of autonomous vegetable-growing technology onboard ships. A pioneering initiative, which also includes shipowners Eastern Pacific Shipping, Seaspan, Capital Shipping, and CoolCo, has utilised Agwa’s AI-directed cultivation devices with the aim to enhance sustainability and crew wellbeing, the Singapore-based…

  • Getting the cream of the crop into shipping

    Getting the cream of the crop into shipping How to get tech students in Hong Kong enthused about a career in maritime. The latest instalment from our brand new Hong Kong magazine. An insufficient number of tech students are enthused enough to enter a career in maritime in Hong Kong. It is an issue that…

  • Call to create new UN body to focus on maritime security

    Call to create new UN body to focus on maritime security A new 77-page report from the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) has suggested the UN needs a whole new body to address growing maritime security concerns around the world.  The report suggests the UN lacks an institutional structure to address maritime security…

  • Fleet Management at 30: How the business of shipmanagement is changing in the 2020s

    Fleet Management at 30: How the business of shipmanagement is changing in the 2020s Splash has launched a special publication to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Fleet Management, the world’s second-largest shipmanager. The new magazine comes at a pivotal time for the Hong Kong manager as it prepares for a change of leadership with Kishore…

  • Kpler expands with Spire Maritime acquisition

    Kpler expands with Spire Maritime acquisition Maritime data provider Kpler has acquired satellite-powered, global vessel tracking data firm Spire Maritime. By integrating Spire Maritime’s technology and AIS feed, Kpler wants to expand its data reach, offering comprehensive visibility across open oceans. Kpler said that the transaction was expected to close by the first quarter of…

  • Blue Visby trials cut emissions on Marubeni’s LPG trades by nearly 30%

    Blue Visby trials cut emissions on Marubeni’s LPG trades by nearly 30% The Blue Visby cross-industry project aimed at reducing shipping’s greenhouse gas emissions by tackling the sail fast, then wait practice has completed another series of prototype trials, delivering average savings of about 29%. The trials involved 16 LPG carriers under charter by Marubeni…

  • A $1.3trn market opportunity drives into Asia

    A $1.3trn market opportunity drives into Asia Pushpank Kaushik, CEO of Jassper Shipping, writes for Splash today on electric vehicle adoption in emerging Asia. The electric mobility wave is transforming markets worldwide, but in Asia’s emerging economies, its impact extends deeply into social, environmental, and public health spheres. India, now the world’s largest market for…

  • Intership Navigation and Interorient Shipmanagement join forces

    Intership Navigation and Interorient Shipmanagement join forces Cyprus-based Intership Navigation and Interorient Shipmanagement have merged their shipmanagement activities into InterMaritime Shipmanagement. The newly formed company, which will include Intership’s sister company Donnelly Tanker Management, will manage a fleet of over 170 vessels including tankers of all types, LPG carriers, bulkers, containers, multipurpose ships and other…

  • Baltic Exchange rolls out platform for real-time freight intelligence

    The Baltic Exchange has together with digital platform developer Zuma Labs launched a new product that delivers real-time Baltic Exchange indices and FFA (freight forward agreement) prices to shipping professionals. The new platform called Baltic Exchange View has been designed specifically to meet the needs of brokers, charterers, and shipowners for instant access to critical…

  • Egypt reveals $6bn revenue hit as Houthis vow to up campaign against shipping

    The Houthis vowed Sunday to keep up their attacks on merchant shipping likely to the consternation of politicians further north along the Red Sea in Egypt.  Egypt’s foreign minister Badr Abdel Aati revealed in discussions with International Maritime Organization secretary-general Arsenio Dominguez on Friday that the Egyptian economy has taken a $6bn hit from the…