Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Nov 27, 2009, 10:19 am
It seems everyone and their mother offers a marine environment award. Why not a prize instead? By Ryan Skinner (email)   A small handful of company directors may lose sleep this weekend wonder...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Nov 26, 2009, 3:11 am
Marintec's here and many companies want to win some PR in China - here's a couple ways to do it By Ryan Skinner (email)   Marintec kicks off in Shanghai next week with, according to its own...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Nov 25, 2009, 9:14 am
We've seen the entrepreneurs; here are the social media heavyweights among shipping co.'s By Ryan Skinner (email) Two months ago I had the temerity to crown the biggest social media entrep...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Nov 24, 2009, 2:19 pm
From straight shipping mag to trade/commerce/logistics/shipping mag...why? And will it work? By Ryan Skinner (email) Fairplay surprised me last week by announcing that it was changing its focus. In ...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Nov 19, 2009, 9:05 am
Subscribe to MarineBizTV's twitter feed today, and see the future of shipping news By Ryan Skinner (email) The future of (shipping) news is misspelled, grammatically incorrect and ripped...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Nov 19, 2009, 1:45 am
Shipowners citing human error for casualties would be better to say "management failure" By Ryan Skinner (email) Yesterday, INTERTANKO (the umbrella organization for the world's independent tan...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Nov 12, 2009, 9:17 am
The only thing heating up faster than the planet is the debate over what really helps it, and what really doesn't By Ryan Skinner (email) Use the right deodorant and you'll be a chick magne...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Nov 5, 2009, 5:15 am
Global trade will hurt if the absolute good of local supply gains widespread acceptance. A strategy... By Ryan Skinner (email) tweetmeme_url = 'http://5956n.typepad.com/59_56_n/2009/11...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Nov 4, 2009, 4:43 am
Combining mathematical simulation and crowd-sourcing as the solution to the emissions puzzle By Ryan Skinner (email) tweetmeme_url = 'http://5956n.typepad.com/59_56_n/2009/11/prayers-an...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Nov 3, 2009, 8:36 am
Even when you get data on your advertisements, you'll need to consider it carefully By Ryan Skinner (email) tweetmeme_url = 'http://5956n.typepad.com/59_56_n/2009/11/being-seen-to-b...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Nov 3, 2009, 3:54 am
Sometimes a press release is an end in itself, as a recent OMSA press release displays By Ryan Skinner (email) tweetmeme_url = 'http://5956n.typepad.com/59_56_n/2009/11/being-seen-to-be...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Nov 2, 2009, 8:20 am
Is there a better place to see the future of shipping than Norway's maritime R&D funding plans? By Ryan Skinner (email) In an article two weeks ago, I talked with a leading newbuilding consultan...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Oct 27, 2009, 10:27 am
The pay wall in many shipping media titles will fall, but only after a few things happen By Ryan Skinner (email) Much good online news is free. News pundits argue that it will stay that way. Then w...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Oct 26, 2009, 7:22 am
From contra-rotating to pulling ones, propellor design will change shipping in coming decades By Ryan Skinner (email) I'm no naval architect. Like any other lay person, I rely on the observation...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Oct 23, 2009, 5:22 am
Designafish.com is far from run-of-the-mill marine marketing; nor were the results By Ryan Skinner (email)   I like to draw attention to the great, the new and the wild in thinking PR in the marine...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Oct 22, 2009, 4:49 am
Shell, Flex LNG, Hoegh LNG and SBM Offshore in a "race" that all will likely win By Ryan Skinner (email) Consider a painting by Jackson Pollock (right). From seemingly random splatterings of paint...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Oct 21, 2009, 5:10 am
Maritime Connector's founder Eric Superina talks about his experiences, hits & misses By Ryan Skinner (email) Courage and tenacity: Two qualities you'll need to get ahead as an Internet en...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Oct 20, 2009, 8:47 am
Lloyd's List grabbed twitter's shipping news pole position; here's their formula... By Ryan Skinner (email) I talked with informa's Head of Digital Mark Warner (essentially, the guy...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Oct 19, 2009, 5:00 pm
80+ news, business, commentary, financial and regulatory twitter feeds for shipping, with some analysis By Ryan Skinner (email) I'll be honest. This started out as another "best of" - this time...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Oct 19, 2009, 9:13 am
DNV hosts Oslo Maritime Network, energy reduction workshop & newbiz incubator By Ryan Skinner (email) This past Friday, Oslo Maritime Network invited members and friends to a workshop hosted by DNV...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Oct 16, 2009, 1:40 am
By Ryan Skinner (email) Shipbuilding's down cycles create a wealth of cheap engineering resources, R&D opportunities You should listen closely to this; it may make your future. A couple of week&...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Oct 15, 2009, 9:04 am
When "on top of the situation" means less than "being seen to be on top of the situation" By Ryan Skinner (email)   Too much time signing meeting minutes, not enough talking to the press? ...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Oct 14, 2009, 1:57 pm
An excellent piece of reporting from Lloyd's List uncovers a threat to shipping's digital future  By Ryan Skinner (email) Imagine you're driving down an unfamiliar country road, in the...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Oct 12, 2009, 8:50 am
Satellite imagery has made a powerful case against shipping emissions, by making them visible By Ryan Skinner (email) Just ask Ebeneezer Scrooge: Nothing is real until you can see it. No one doubt...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Oct 11, 2009, 10:21 am
West to east, big to bigger, new openings and new entrants By Ryan Skinner (email) Ben Bernanke has called the recession and economists are trying to define what they call the New Normal. Even if t...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Oct 9, 2009, 7:16 am
Almost 100 cadets in Italy, Finland, Norway, Korea, Singapore and China reveal their interests By Ryan Skinner (email) For a recent customer publication, we polled roughly 100 bridge and engineer ...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Oct 8, 2009, 8:34 am
Marketers' hyperbole, what really matters and what really doesn't By Ryan Skinner (email) It's not seldom that, in my errand as publicist and journalist, I become a fly on the wall durin...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Oct 4, 2009, 2:17 pm
Two recent events illustrate shipowners’ cack-handed approach to the media By Ryan Skinner (email) For all the depth of their combined resources, shipowners’ associations always seem to ...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Oct 1, 2009, 3:47 pm
By Ryan Skinner (email) If you want to reach the Chinese market, here are some tips, from a Chinese marketer in Europe I recently asked a customer, a Chinese marketing manager stationed here in...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Sep 30, 2009, 9:29 am
By Ryan Skinner (email) Yesterday's ZERO conference a very small step on the path to shipping's zero emissions future. Perhaps it was the low turnout. Perhaps it was the ho-hum opening. ...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Sep 29, 2009, 2:38 pm
By Ryan Skinner (email) During an interview a couple years back with Magnus Miemois, then VP in ship power (now VP for offshore) for Finnish Wärtsilä, he told me a funny thing about their approach ...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Sep 28, 2009, 9:07 am
By Ryan Skinner (email) Nations racing for energy resources under the Arctic have so far kept their cool. Despite countless territorial disputes, as each nation bordering the Arctic strives to ex...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Sep 25, 2009, 8:29 am
By Ryan Skinner (email) These are the ones to watch on the social media scene when it comes to shipping... To too many people in the marine industries, social media is what you call those pages...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Sep 24, 2009, 9:28 am
By Ryan Skinner (email) Pushed by the IMO on SOLAS ships, it's a blessing (in disguise?) to owners and the public alike. A report published by DNV back in 2007 stated that making ECDIS man...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Sep 22, 2009, 8:32 am
By Ryan Skinner (email) To the public, shipping is global trade's handmaid. Both may come damaged from a recession.  The shipping community's recession nightmares are summed up in one photo...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Sep 21, 2009, 4:41 am
By Ryan Skinner (email) Who's wrong - me or the Economist? One hesitates to contradict the Economist, but... Last week, I wrote a short piece describing how Norway's most recent electi...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Sep 18, 2009, 8:07 am
By Ryan Skinner (email) Will the shipping industry figure out that it too needs to imagine, inspire? The auto industry knows the game well: Design a sleek, hot-blooded machine with little concernÂ...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Sep 16, 2009, 3:14 pm
By Ryan Skinner (email) Norwegians voted this past Monday in another election, where much ballyhoo is made over little real difference; if politics is the art of the possible, one doesn't have to...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Sep 15, 2009, 2:36 pm
By Ryan Skinner (email) Take away the RPG launcher, and what's the difference, really? At first glance, a proposal worthy of Jonathan Swift, hiring young Somalians as cadets has a lot of meri...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Sep 11, 2009, 8:37 am
By Ryan Skinner (email) When Hurricane Bill kicked off the Atlantic season, Mashable presented hurricane-weary land-lovers with a gazilion ways to monitor storms online. That same functionality w...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Aug 24, 2009, 2:54 pm
By Ryan Skinner (email) Shipping would benefit immeasurably if two phenomena driven by technology collided: e-wholesaling and pop-up retail. The upshot would be a boom in container shipping - a ...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Aug 21, 2009, 3:20 am
By Ryan Skinner (email) It's the kind of story every ad salesman and marketing director would press close to their heart. Hurtigruten, the operator of Norway's coastal ferries, announced ...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Aug 20, 2009, 1:04 pm
By Ryan Skinner (email) All of our real-time ship map dreams have been realized! Well, that may be overstating things, but this is a nifty little app anyway. A huge number of Greek institutions a...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Aug 19, 2009, 7:46 am
By Ryan Skinner (email) I spoke this afternoon with the editor of ShippingPodcasts.com, James Tweed. He's behind a few of the great, new channels for shipping information and news that are...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Aug 18, 2009, 8:04 am
By Ryan Skinner (email) In paradigm-changing shipping technologies, we swing from the ballistic (ballast water) to the futuristic. The idea of switching out steel with lighter stuff has been aro...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Aug 14, 2009, 3:10 am
By Ryan Skinner (email) Well, I asked for it. Now it's here. CoracleOnline, a UK-based eLearning provider, launched a new game for iPhone/iPod called Ship It! on August 6. I don't ha...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Aug 13, 2009, 4:25 am
By Ryan Skinner (email) Ran across this outstanding video today. Every yellow dot is a commercial airliner. The same thing could be done for ships. Typically, it hasn't. And the industry rema...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Aug 12, 2009, 9:08 am
By Ryan Skinner (email) Some would say it's unglamourous. It looks like a pump, (often) smells like a chemical and feels like a quick route to the poor house. But the real money in ballast w...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Aug 11, 2009, 8:08 am
By Ryan Skinner (email) It was called ego surfing, googling yourself, that is. Depending on your name and your habits, you were struck by the amount of data you found about yourself online and the o...
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Ryan S. posted an article on 5956N - Aug 10, 2009, 7:12 am
By Ryan Skinner (email) Some of our beleaguered friends in the shipping press would gnash their teeth and cry foul at this title. They shouldn't. First of all, the demise of print media is alr...
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