Year: 2020 Language: english Author: Linton Nightingale Genre: Research papers Publisher: lloydslist Edition: 1st ed. Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 56 Description: All too often, I have been accused of focusing on the negatives or highlighting the failings of our industry in my monthly column. So for regular readers, this will be a welcome change in tone — particularly given the current plight in which we have all found ourselves at the hands of the ongoing health crisis. This month, I wanted to take the time to applaud the container shipping lines for finally — it seems — getting their act together. One could be forgiven for fearing the worst for the liner industry as the true extent of the coronavirus pandemic began to hit home earlier this year. The potential full-year losses forecast by industry commentators and analysts alike were alarming to say the least; while shipping’s track record has also not been great in times of crisis, when you consider the way it fared in the fallout of the global financial crash a decade ago. However, there are signs that the issue of surplus capacity — a problem that has plagued container shipping for years and is synonymous with the industry
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Future Fuels Shipping’s Path to Decarbonisation
Language: english
Author: Linton Nightingale
Genre: Research papers
Publisher: lloydslist
Edition: 1st ed.
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 56
Description: All too often, I have been accused of focusing on the negatives or highlighting the failings of our industry in my monthly column. So for regular readers, this will be a welcome change in tone — particularly given the current plight in which we have all found ourselves at the hands of the ongoing health crisis. This month, I wanted to take the time to applaud the container shipping lines for finally — it seems — getting their act together. One could be forgiven for fearing the worst for the liner industry as the true extent of the coronavirus pandemic began to hit home earlier this year. The potential full-year losses forecast by industry commentators and analysts alike were alarming to say the least; while shipping’s track record has also not been
great in times of crisis, when you consider the way it fared in the fallout of the global financial crash a decade ago. However, there are signs that the
issue of surplus capacity — a problem that has plagued container shipping for years and is synonymous with the industry
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