e-nautics: Shipping’s Technology-Enabled Future
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View ArticleThe Cloud
It’s connectivity and computing, it’s bringing community to commerce, it can deliver communication, collaboration and creativity, and for shipping it could mean the difference between competitiveness,...
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The Weakest Link
The weakest link The world is on the brink of a new industrial revolution which will radically change materials, markets, manufacturing and machines. Can shipping pull its weight? Or will we continue...
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Don’t Panic?
Don’t Panic? Despite representing just 1% of operating costs, connectivity is the gateway to shipping’s future. It is the answer. But what’s the question? The HitchHiker’s Guide To The Galaxy describes...
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Shipping 3.0
Shipping’s Next Lightbulb Moment Sail, steam, digital. Welcome to shipping 3.0 Jerk van whaat? Back in the late 1990s a story made the rounds which has found its way into legend. At the time...
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Hope and Prey
Hope and Prey The devil may take the hindmost, but cyber-criminals are taking everyone, and shipping looks like easy prey. We need a new security paradigm, and setting it isn’t IT’s job. It’s yours....
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The Cookie Crumbles
Technology is disrupting risk, and it will both change and make maritime fortunes in the process. When Apple’s new iWatch went on sale recently the consensus from commentators seemed to be that whilst...
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Bunker Mentality
Everyone’s looking to make the ‘right’ choice about fuel. But there is no silver bullet. The fuel of the future probably hasn’t shown up yet, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of scope for...
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Pigs Will Sing
Brand and PR is giving way to culture and purpose. So shipping doesn’t need to get better at PR and branding, it just needs to get better, and cognitive diversity is at the heart of that. There’s an...
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AI, AI, Captain
The SmartShip is the autonomous ship by another name, ironically though it won’t mean independence, but convergence, forging the new blue logistics chain as part of the intelligent transport systems of...
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Core Issue
The world is in flux, so it’s no surprise innovation is a top priority. Or is it? Shipping’s customers are crying out for a Model-T, but are we just delivering a faster horse? It’s a curious fact...
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The Emperor’s New Clothes
If you’re worrying about COP21, then you can stop. Shipping isn’t likely to cause that level of pollution by 2050. But there’s a reason for that. It’s called the new Seaconomics. And it’s something you...
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Kissing the Frog
The scale of shipping’s problems may be big, but the solution is far bigger. Because shipping isn’t a noun these days. It’s a verb. Every winter around this time, in an expensive building opposite...
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The Train Now Departing
It’s where the adventure always starts. Where the magic begins. If you can’t get onto the platform then you’re going to get left behind, says K D Adamson. If you’re walking through the main concourse...
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Regvolution!
Legacy regulation is facing the bureaucratic singularity, but the digital age also offers an unprecedented opportunity. Regvolution is coming, and it’s going to be transformational, says K D Adamson....
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Monkey Business
Technology is allowing all sorts of things a voice these days, and in order to make the most of the digital opportunity that has to include our people, says K D Adamson. I think we’ve known each...
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Bulb-Lite Moment
The bitcoin and the bulb were never about bubbles. They’re barometers of belief, and they’re pointing to change, says K D Adamson. At 1pm on 17th September 2017 in Tottenham, North London, a man...
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