Editorial Director of Asia Shipping Media, publishers of Splash, Splash Extra & Maritime CEO
Joined February 2009
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22 Jan 2025
A new study shows a way to calculate when a hull needs to be defouled, so that drydock time can be scheduled optimally, reducing costs and emissions. Pictured, the formation of biofilm over 3 days splash247.com/hull-cleaning-…
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EU investigation seeks to answer what is the content and scope of the rights to life, liberty and health when applied at sea and who is responsible for protecting them and how splash247.com/eu-launches-pr…
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'Chinese yards have gained market leadership while the Japanese and Koreans suffered due to higher cost bases and labour shortages. Chinese yards benefitted from policy support, weaker RMB, softer steel prices, & a weak labour market, capping labour costs' splash247.com/seoul-seeks-wa…
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Emanuele Grimaldi, the chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping, writes for Splash today splash247.com/navigating-shi…
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22 Jan 2025
This pen (made in America) might need an ink refill soon. Trump and all things maritime on day 3 of his return to the White House - all you need to know splash247.com/trumps-sweepin…
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22 Jan 2025
CHART OF THE DAY: Dry bulk doldrums see ships slow to levels not experienced for more than a decade. Our lead story splash247.com/amid-depressed…
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21 Jan 2025
A year is a long time in shipping as new data on global fleet ages clearly shows splash247.com/huge-slice-of-…
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21 Jan 2025
It has now been 429 days that the crew of the Galaxy Leader car carrier have been held hostage by the Houthis in Yemen. However, for the first time during this 14-month incarceration, there is hope that the 25 crewmembers could be freed imminently splash247.com/galaxy-leader-…
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21 Jan 2025
Wresting back control of the Panama Canal, renaming the Gulf of Mexico and exiting from the Paris Agreement were three of the shipping takeaways in the first hours following the inauguration of Donald Trump yesterday splash247.com/panama-canal-p…
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20 Jan 2025
'The reopening of the Red Sea is likely to be gradual, unfolding over months rather than weeks' splash247.com/houthis-mainta…
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20 Jan 2025
As the first phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect yesterday, the Houthis of Yemen have provided an update on their Red Sea strategy splash247.com/houthis-mainta…
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'Trade flows under Trump 1.0 and Biden’s continuation and increasing Trump’s 1.0 into Biden 1.0, have increased, not decreased, trade flows into the US' splash247.com/shipping-readi…
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20 Jan 2025
With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, the shipping industry has many questions about what the future of global trade holds - our lead today splash247.com/shipping-readi…
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17 Jan 2025
Two charts that help explain how China has come to control two-thirds of the world's shipbuilding orderbook
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Skagerak Capital has sold maritime software provider VesselMan to Marcura for an undisclosed sum splash247.com/marcura-buys-v…
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Norway is leading Europe when it comes to ways to keep track of merchant shipping passing near its shoreline splash247.com/norways-new-ma…
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China’s commerce ministry on Friday dismissed a US investigation targeting China’s shipbuilding, maritime and logistics sectors, describing it as marked by “unilateralism and protectionism” splash247.com/beijing-dismis…
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17 Jan 2025
CHART OF THE DAY: Shipping sectors and the Red Sea shipping crisis splash247.com/houthi-leader-…
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16 Jan 2025
'The upcoming alliance reshuffle which could disrupt schedules and official announcement of tariffs after President-elect Trump takes office could arrest the sharp rates decline and keep rates at a relatively high level in 1H25' splash247.com/ocean-alliance…
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16 Jan 2025
CHART OF THE DAY: The only container grouping remaining intact come February 1, the Ocean Alliance, will also be the one with the largest market share and widest market coverage this year splash247.com/ocean-alliance…
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