Interview: Attaining Business Intelligence
In a world swamped by software solutions providing various types of information and data it has become difficult to choose those tools that extract the data we actually need. Ships have been...
View ArticleInterview: Offshore Ports – The Way Forward
Thinking outside the box has sprung a myriad of innovations throughout history and it is what is keeping us “alive and ticking”. The maritime industry has had its share of innovative thinking,...
View ArticleInterview: Growing with the Business
Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) is one of the world’s leading maritime service providers with 4,500 people serving more than 2,200 ports worldwide. Last year, WSS made product deliveries to 24,000...
View ArticleInterview: Recruiting for Maritime Industry
The global maritime industry is undergoing a very challenging period with industry stakeholders opting for automation of their business operations as much as possible. As the industry pushes further...
View ArticleInterview: Antwerp Sets the Course for Future Growth
Belgium’s Port of Antwerp is the biggest port area in the world, covering 13,057 hectares, the equivalent of 20,000 football fields. The Port of Antwerp is situated some 80 kilometers inland at the...
View ArticleInterview: Dealing with Ebola
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has already had a significant impact on the shipping industry. West African export trade is estimated to be down by as much as 30% since the start of the outbreak,...
View ArticleInterview: Insight into Piracy
The 2014 has been a pretty eventful year with respect to pirate activities, seeing a tragic end with a crew member of a Vietnamese tanker VP Asphalt 2 being killed in a hijacking attack off the eastern...
View ArticleInterview: BC Ferries Pressing On with LNG Switch
The latest 0.1% Sulphur Directive effective January 1 has left the shipping industry with three possible choices on how to respond to the latest fuel requirements within the Emission Control Areas...
View ArticleInterview: Milaha Working to Sustain Growth Momentum
Qatar Navigation (Milaha) Q.S.C, a shareholding company with core interests in maritime transport and logistics, ended the 2014 fiscal year on a very profitable note. Milaha’s net profit for 2014...
View ArticleInterferry: New Eco and Safety Rules Lack Practicality
Originally formed back in 1976 as the International Marine Transit Association in order to provide the ferry industry with a platform for networking and information exchange, Interferry soon evolved...
View ArticleInterview: Gaining Competitive Edge by Optimizing Maintenance
In an ever more competitive maritime market, shipowners need to know how to make the best out of emerging technologies so as to cut costs and ensure efficiency. However, as technology makes strides...
View ArticleInterview: Time for Carriers to Get Ahead of the Curve
The 2015 has started off as a pretty challenging year for the container shipping industry. With volatile spot rates coupled with oversupply and ordering of ever bigger ships, ship owners across the...
View ArticleInterview: Trials and Tribulations of the Dry Bulk Market
The dry bulk shipping market has been hit hard by the downturn of the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) that fell to unprecedented lows this year. Vessel oversupply and dwindling demand, especially from the...
View ArticleInterview: Port of Oakland Braves the Storm, Eyes More Cargo
The United States West Coast ports have braved a particularly turbulent period with the congestion woes arising from waterfront contract talks between the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the...
View ArticleCLIA Interview: Setting the Course for Cruise Shipping
The cruise shipping industry is making significant strides toward a new age of transporting passengers, one of them being orders for the industry’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered ships....
View ArticleInterview: Port of Amsterdam’s New Sea Lock Will Open a Door of Opportunities
The Port of Amsterdam is about to embark on a major journey as preparations for the construction of the new IJmuiden sea lock, located at the entrance to the North Sea Canal, gear up. The construction...
View ArticleMiddle Point: Building of Yachts and Cruise Ships Booming
Finding new talent to fill the ranks in the maritime industry is a tough job especially if the labor force you are targeting are engineers. Falling oil prices have seen an overall downturn in the oil...
View ArticleTop Interviews of 2015
The end of December and coming holidays are traditionally the time when we look back at the highlights of the ending year. World Maritime News is kicking off the 2015 retrospective with its Top 5...
View ArticleInterview: Larger LNG-Powered Boxships Only a Matter of Time
Cutting emissions in a world already experiencing climate change has been one of the key topics last year as world powers met in Paris to talk measures aimed at curbing global warming of more than...
View ArticleInterview: Navigating the Ever Bigger Ships into the Future
As the ships of the global fleet get bigger the tougher it gets to navigate these giants, especially if you are squeezing through a narrow shipping canal. A number of things can go wrong and hence, it...
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