A Purpose Driven Industry All of us know the value proposition of the shipping industry: shipping delivers more than 90% of the world’s goods and energy and is quite literally the ENGINE of global trade. Many of the companies involved…
Man/woman VERSUS Machine or Man/woman AND Machine? The shipping industry is rapidly approaching, or in some cases has arrived at, the Age of Autonomy. Daily we are hearing new breakthroughs in how technology is absorbing rote tasks, performing complex activities,…
Come into the Shark Tank - if you dare!! What is the Shark Tank? Shark Tank is an American business reality television series on ABC that premiered on August 9, 2009. The show is the American franchise of the international format Dragons' Den, which originated in Japan as the Tigers…
STAMFORD, Conn. – August 8, 2019 – Contestants for SHIPPINGInsight’s 2019 SHARK TANK are now being accepted for start-ups and new technologies and services to compete for the SHIPPINGInsight Innovation Award, to be presented at an Awards luncheon on the…
Approaching the Finish Line: Picking up the pace of change With each day, we draw closer to the IMO2020 Sulphur reduction coming into force January 1st. Much has been written about preparation, strategies, enforcement and more. It is surprising, however,…
STAMFORD, Conn. – August 14, 2019 Mr. Jeffrey Lantz, Director of Commercial Regulations and Standards (CG-5PS) U.S. Coast Guard will be anchoring the roundtable “Solving the Enforcement Conundrum” at this year’s SHIPPINGInsight Conference. He will be joined by shipowners, flag…
SHIPPINGInsight Launches New Tech Corridor at October Event STAMFORD, Conn. – August 7, 2019 –Committed to innovation and optimization, Chief Evolution Officer, Carleen Lyden Walker, announced today that this year’s SHIPPINGInsight Fleet Optimization and Innovation Conference and Exhibition being held…
Maritime’s “Monolith Moment”- The Dawn of a New Era How many of you have watched 2001: A Space Odyssey in the past couple of years? If you have, you will see how closely the movie reflects where we are in…
A few months ago, the world was riveted by the passion and advocacy of Greta Thunberg - a 15-year-old Swedish girl who risked demerits by skipping school on Fridays to lobby her government about the perils of fossil fuels.…
Peering into the future - the near future, not the distant future - we see the beginnings of a pathway towards a goal that some believe is only aspirational: a zero-emissions shipping industry. It really shouldn't come as too much…