Dr Lynn Simpson gives her verdict on the Moss review looking into Australia’s Live Animal Export industry. Several months late the government has finally released the Moss review. Akin to waiting for a deadbeat kid to give their parents a damning, school report card. Philip Moss was tasked with...
https://splash247.com/live-animal-export-review-dismembers-current-australian-regulations/
Thanos Sofios from Athens consultancy Novisea gives readers some ideas where to put their money. “God must have been a shipowner. He placed the raw materials far from where they were needed and covered two thirds of the earth with water.” Erling Naess, Norwegian shipowner, 1901-1993 Shipping is a...
https://splash247.com/three-ways-to-invest-in-shipping-without-buying-ships/
Many shipping sectors are rebounding, but IPOs remain thin on the ground. J Mintzmyer, lead investor at Value Investor’s Edge, explains why. The markets have been very difficult during 2018, but even following a brutal bout of volatility and index declines, the S&P 500 is only off by around 4% YTD....
https://splash247.com/why-theres-no-love-for-shipping-equities/
Tom Bebbington from consultancy Container Logic makes the case for flying boxes in and out of ports rather than using cranes. Container vessels have been getting progressively larger, to the point of 23,000 teu. Whilst this may generate economies of scale for the carriers (although this is...
https://splash247.com/are-we-looking-at-terminal-infrastructure-the-wrong-way-around/
The challenge for shipping today is to deal with environmental and tech issues based on facts and science, and not have solutions driven by lobbyists and the ever-expanding universe of industry groups alone, argues Greg Atkinson, the founder of Eco Marine Power. Some years ago at shipping events...
https://splash247.com/green-ships-scrubbers-and-all-things-digital/
The IMO’s 2020 sulphur cap is rapidly descending into a colossal regulatory fail, argues Jeffrey McGee from Makai Marine Advisors. During this week’s 73rd session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC73), the IMO can count on broad support from a variety of players, including the...
A two-tier market will reward early adopters with higher time charter rates and asset values as cost of low sulphur fuel increases dramatically, argues Will Fray from Maritime Strategies International (MSI). Scrubber-fitted dry bulk vessels could be earning a significant premium over those burning...
https://splash247.com/scrubber-fitted-dry-bulk-vessels-will-command-2020-premiums/
Santosh Patil tries to fathom how carriers managed to get into such an oversupplied situation. Having been a part of and watching developments in the container shipping industry with interest over the last two decades or so, I never seemed to have come to terms with how the container shipping...
With the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) about to sit down for crunch talks at the International Maritime Organization the team at JLA Media look at one of the UN body’s less well thought out pieces of regulation. As the celebrations surrounding IMO’s 70th anniversary fade into...
https://splash247.com/are-eedi-shortcoming-shippings-smoking-gun/
Ishaan Hemnani from BunkerEx has investigated where existing 3.5% HSFO bunker demand will go, how this will be replaced and what this means for prices. The future cost of 3.5% HSFO could go as low as $220 per metric ton. The only markets left for 3.5% HSFO are power generation, which currently uses...