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Robert Oliver is a historical novelist whose work examines how risk, power, and decision-making collide under pressure. This month he has published Armada: The Fire, which chronicles the decades leading to the attempted Spanish Armada invasion of England in 1588. Writing for Splash, he argues that there are many lessons commercial shipping can learn from this …
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https://splash247.com/what-the-spanish-armada-still-teaches-us-about-leadership/Dubai-based Emirates Shipping Line has appointed Sushil Sriram as chief executive officer, replacing Till Ole Barrelet, who is stepping down after four years in the role. Sriram joined ESL in January 2024 as chief trade officer and has since worked alongside the senior team on network development and commercial strategy. He brings around 20 years …
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https://splash247.com/leadership-change-at-emirates-shipping-line/New York-listed tanker owner DHT Holdings has secured its second high-paying time charter this week, fixing one of its 2012-built VLCCs at $94,000 per day for one year. The contract, concluded with an unnamed global energy company, is for the 314,200 dwt HD Hyundai Samho-built DHT Taiga and due to start in March this year. …
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https://splash247.com/dht-locks-in-second-vlcc-at-premium-rate/New Zealand on Friday unveiled its largest sanctions package to date, targeting Russia-linked shipping, expanding measures to include 23 individuals, 13 entities and 100 vessels, and lowering the oil price cap for Russian-origin crude to $44.10 per barrel. The announcement comes as the European Union negotiates a 20th sanctions package against Russia. Europe plans to …
A planned $4.2bn sale of ZIM to Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd sparked protests and a strike in Israel this week. Under the structure outlined, Hapag-Lloyd will acquire ZIM and then carve out its Israeli operations into a separate entity to be controlled by FIMI. The new company, to be known as “New ZIM”, will operate 16 vessels …
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https://splash247.com/splash-wrap-zim-sale-tops-the-agenda/Denmark’s maritime authority on Thursday detained an Iran-flagged container vessel anchored in Danish waters after determining it was not properly registered. LSEG data identify the ship as Nora, which was initially sailing under a Comoros flag. The Danish authority said Comoros had informed it the vessel was not found in the Comoros registry. The Danish …
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https://splash247.com/denmark-detains-sanctioned-boxship/The International Maritime Organization (IMO) secretariat has counted 529 vessels flying false flags, a sprawling fraud problem that will headline the agenda at next month’s legal sub-committee meeting and exposes systemic weaknesses in global ship registration. In a note circulated ahead of LEG 113, the secretariat said the tally of falsely flagged ships has risen …
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https://splash247.com/imo-counts-529-vessels-flying-false-flags/A new insight brief by the UCL Shipping and Oceans Research Group for the Getting to Zero coalition, titled "Uncertainty at the IMO: Three scenarios and their consequences for shipping’s transition”, concludes that of those options only the…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/report-obvious-compromise-net-zero-535942Jason Turner, Chairman and CEO of Entanglement, started the AI quantum computing company in 2017. He quickly realized it was too early. Rather than focus on quantum computing hardware, which is still on the journey to maturity, he chose to focus on quantum logic…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/taking-quantum-logic-edge-535943GT Wings has secured Lloyd’s Register (LR) verification of sea trials performance assessment methodology for its AirWing™ Jet Sail technology.The announcement follows some 10 months of commercial operation of a 20-metre AirWing™ onboard MV Vectis Progress…
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