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Weighing the credibility of experts given their track record in the Covid crisis - and now slow steaming?
In an unusual "collaboration" with the venerable British news agency Reuters, the "Elders of Davos", aka, the World Economic Forum, itself a collaboration of the highest government and business officials, produced an article entitled "Why Shipping Might Be About To Get a Little Bit Slower".
Underlyng the article's apparently benign message to stave off global warming and its supposedly deadly consequences, is the insistence that shipping must turn away from fossil fuels and "go green" and slow down.
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Coping with the inevitable growth in reefers and a confused, inefficient lack of data sharing systems
One of the more promising developments in container shipping has been the widespread use of the reefer container. While there have been technological developments in this field over the last 20 years, more significant has been its sheer growth in popularity and their impacts in diversifying cold chains worldwide.
This has allowed the development of niche markets where there had been only mass markets before operated by those who could operate on the large scale, who made servants of smaller stakeholders who could not avail themselves of economies of scale.
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It is doubtful Northern Sea Route will amount to more than Northwest Passage did - which is to say, not much
If there were to be a breakdown of those concerned about the development of the Northern Sea Route over Russia, it appears it would be dominated by those who would retard its progress or exploit its success - if any.
This pattern is unbroken in an article entitled "Arctic Shipping Routes Are Feeling the Heat" published by EOS Science News, of Washington, DC.
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Another SOLAS update: Did revisions need to be done, or did bureaucratic activists need something to do?
The good news for some is that new expenses that inevitably accompany four-year updates of the UN's Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) treaty do not go into force until 2024, and much of it only applies to newbuilds leaving existing ships unaffected.
New SOLAS requirements intend to improve mooring safety by introducing additional requirements to selection, arrangement, inspection, maintenance and replacement of mooring equipment, including lines, according to damage report from DNV, the Oslo-based classification society.
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