Editorial Director of Asia Shipping Media, publishers of Splash, Splash Extra & Maritime CEO

Midi-Pyrénées, France
Based in France
A new study shows a way to calculate when a hull needs to be defouled, so that drydock time can be scheduled optimally, reducing costs and emissions. Pictured, the formation of biofilm over 3 days splash247.com/hull-cleaning-…
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CHART OF THE DAY: Dry bulk doldrums see ships slow to levels not experienced for more than a decade. Our lead story splash247.com/amid-depressed…
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Two charts that help explain how China has come to control two-thirds of the world's shipbuilding orderbook
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CHART OF THE DAY: Shipping sectors and the Red Sea shipping crisis splash247.com/houthi-leader-…
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CHART OF THE DAY: The only container grouping remaining intact come February 1, the Ocean Alliance, will also be the one with the largest market share and widest market coverage this year splash247.com/ocean-alliance…
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The Red Sea shipping crisis mapped splash247.com/shipping-waits…
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In Norway, an enterprising 24-year-old student, Jesper Johnsen Loes, has recently launched MaritimAlarm.no, a website that monitors ship activity in and around Norway, with the aim of uncovering potential threats to Norwegian infrastructure splash247.com/nato-baltic-st…
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Nothing screams winter quite like the smell of Polish dumplings permeating through our house. Super moreish pierogi are one of 190 recipes from 25 countries detailed in Fiery Food, my cookbook published this week and on sale at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong.
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And now for something completely, ridiculously, stupidly different! Here’s a cookbook originally destined to be a family ring binder affair, but that has since spiralled out of control featuring 190 recipes from 25 countries. Normal shipping reporting has since been resumed
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Published at the start of the European working day and end of business hours in Asia, Daily Splash is our free newsletter with the top 8 shipping news stories from around the world as well as the 4 most important offshore stories. To subscribe, click here splash247.us9.list-manage.co…
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This is what I will be doing for the next 18 days with the laptop firmly shut. Thanks for all the interaction on Splash this year - see you fresh and raring to go on January 6
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Our image of the year. The Dali was a close second splash247.com/splash-annual-…
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Our cartoonist's take on the year in shipping splash247.com/splash-annual-…
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CHART OF THE DAY: The world's five largest shipowning nations splash247.com/china-stretche…
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CHART OF THE DAY: Courtesy of Sea-Intelligence. If not for the Houthis, liner shipping would be severely out of pocket splash247.com/how-the-houthi…
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CHART OF THE DAY: Courtesy of Greek broker Intermodal splash247.com/china-now-cont…
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CHART OF THE DAY: Iranian oil exports during the Trump and Biden administrations splash247.com/vlccs-on-notic…
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CMA CGM has overhauled Maersk to become the largest carrier on the transpacific splash247.com/cma-cgm-regain…
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CHART OF THE DAY: 'This winter could become a winter of discontent for tanker owners across the globe' splash247.com/analyst-abstra…
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It's another keyboard melt type of day at Splash Towers. You've got just less than an hour to sign up to Daily Splash, our free newsletter, to find out what has been damaging our fingertips today. Link here: splash247.us9.list-manage.co…
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CHART OF THE DAY: Courtesy of @JHannisdahl - LNG plumbs the absolute depths splash247.com/record-lows-se…
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And that's a wrap from us at Hong Kong Maritime Week - the lovely folk at Caravel Group ringing in a fab celebration of shipping at the Four Seasons
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5 years ago all we wrote about as shipping journalists was a constant stream of scrubber stories. Such simpler times - our lead today splash247.com/scrubber-insta…
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Liner shipping earned a combined $26.8bn in Q3 - that's more than twice what the container shipping industry earned in any previous full year outside of the covid era splash247.com/liner-shipping…
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We're ready to go: live from Hong Kong, it's the 2024 edition of The Captain's Table - watch it all unfold here: splash247.com/watch-the-fina…
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Get your snacks ready and get comfy! Watch the finals of The Captain’s Table live on Splash in one hour's time by clicking this link: splash247.com/watch-the-fina…
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Around 1,000 people have turned out for the annual Hong Kong Shipowners Association cocktails. Hear what the HKSOA chairman and deputy chair have to say in this exclusive interview carried today splash247.com/angad-banga-id…
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A Chinese ship is once again at the centre of a European infrastructure attack splash247.com/chinese-bulk-c…
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Green corridors increasingly wrap their way around the world’s oceans and seas, but they face a “feasibility wall”, according to a new 36-page report from the Getting to Zero Coalition and the Global Maritime Forum splash247.com/green-shipping…
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At a WISTA gathering taking place at the super cool China Club, one of more than 50 events taking place during Hong Kong Maritime Week. You can read our brand new 80-page special on HK for free here: splash247.com/magazine/hong-…
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Some of the great and good reading our lovely new magazine this eve. You too can for free via this link: splash247.com/magazine/hong-…
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So pleased to see our lovely new magazine being distributed across my old hometown this week. Today we look at Hong Kong's role when it comes to ship finance splash247.com/hong-kongs-rol…
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CHART OF THE DAY: China and coal splash247.com/asia-and-europ…
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Already making waves around Hong Kong ... our new magazine being distributed at the 40th anniversary of the Institute of Sea Transport bash tonight
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Massive team effort in getting this big 80-page magazine out today splash247.com/splash-launche…
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CHART OF THE DAY: an eye-opener on tariffs splash247.com/us-container-t…
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A proposed new emissions control area would be the largest of its kind, stretching from Portugal to Greenland splash247.com/gigantic-emiss…
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One of those days I can tell ya at Splash Towers splash247.com/shipping-react…
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Peachy Monday issue of Daily Splash lined up. It is free, folks, so go on, give it a go ... you've got less than 10 minutes to sign up to shipping's number one global newsletter splash247.us9.list-manage.co…
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CHART OF THE DAY: Courtesy of the International Energy Agency splash247.com/electric-vehic…
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CHART OF THE DAY: West Africa cape volumes spike splash247.com/west-africa-ca…
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The head of Japanese shipowner Soki Kisen the latest person to sign up as a delegate to next April's @GenevaDry - the world's premier commodities shipping event genevadry.com/book/
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CHART OF THE DAY: How each disruptive thing hitting shipping has transpired in terms of container costs splash247.com/developing-eco…
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HOT OFF THE PRESS: Be the first to get the world's key. shipping and offshore news by signing up for free to Daily Splash. Today's newsletter, due out in half an hour, is especially peachy! Sign up here: splash247.us9.list-manage.co…
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CHART OF THE DAY: Black swan events increase volatility, according to @InfoMSI with the last five years being the most volatile of the century to date splash247.com/the-roaring-tw…
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Hong Kong's Gold Coast Football Club at the Home & Away football tournament sporting some fine-looking shirts. The tournament brings together the local community to raise awareness and support for refugees, asylum seekers, and survivors of human trafficking
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LNG as shipping’s preeminent alternative fuel continues to make waves, both in terms of newbuild contracts as well as from its fierce opponents splash247.com/lng-roars-back…
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SIBCON, bunkering biggest's event is underway in Singapore. Splash has always covered this sector of shipping carefully. Here's our bunkering archive including three stories from today splash247.com/category/secto… #sibcon @SIBCON_SG
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We're close to best-ever territory with today's Daily Splash, our free newsletter bringing you all you need to know news-wise from the worlds of shipping and offshore. Don't believe me? Sign up and see! splash247.us9.list-manage.co…
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Which companies are hit hardest by the American port strike? splash247.com/presidential-e…
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