Features
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CREDIT CRISIS
Dr Arjen van Klink, senior advisor for strategy and innovation at Rabobank in Rotterdam,
looks at how shipping companies, bunker suppliers and banks are coping with the
world economic downturn
Against a backdrop of awful trading conditions in the maritime sector, Paul Millar of Lloyd’s MIU seeks out potential customer types who will make it through to the other side of recession
Adam Dupré of Ocean Intellligence surveys the turmoil in the shipping and bunker markets
and looks out for some green shoots of recovery
Julian Wilkinson of Moore Stephens explains why, despite the current economic downturn,
shipping is still a good business to be in
TECHNICAL ISSUES
Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes examines how the specialist working group, under the leadership of Wanda Fabriek, is tackling the need to update the global bunker quality standard ISO 8217
REGIONAL FOCUS
Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes looks at South Africa’s thriving, but unpredictable, bunker market
SPOTLIGHT ON BUNKER METERING
Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes anticipates a sea change in the way bunker fuel is delivered as more players look seriously at installing mass flow metering equipment on ships and bunker barges
Claus Møller Petersen reports on why A.P. Moller – Maersk is installing mass f low meters in an effort to stamp out the practice of short deliveries of bunker fuel and make the industry more transparent
Dr Manus Henry outlines the advantages of Coriolis mass f low meters over conventional bunker quantity measurement techniques
Steve Jones explains why accurate measurement of delivered volumes is important to the bunker industry and describes the testing and development of mass flow meters currently underway
Don Gregory looks at current delivery and measurement practices and calls for an orderly introduction of the ‘irrefutable quantity measurement’ solution promised by bunker metering
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Yariella Coello of Freight by Water considers the challenges facing the UK water-freight transport sector in its efforts to withstand this current period of economic uncertainty
Evangelos L. Efstathiou of Veson Nautical looks at the economic implications of SECAs
John Aitken of SEAaT discusses emissions trading schemes for ships
Richard Danns of BMT Defence Services reports on the Pose2idon project which aims to advance electric ship technology |
