@SamChambers

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

 Midi-Pyrénées, France
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Joined February 2009
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Splash Extra’s Top 12 News Items For 2024: 1️⃣The Red Sea shipping crisis 2️⃣War in Ukraine & the shadow fleet 3️⃣Donald Trump’s reelection 4️⃣The Dali containership 5️⃣Global liners shuffling their alliances 6️⃣Consolidation in tech and owners 7️⃣The Panama Canal 8️⃣Somali pirates reappearing 9️⃣The EU’s emissions trading system 🔟A new secretary-general of the IMO 1️⃣1️⃣The banner year for China’s shipbuilders 1️⃣2️⃣Shipping’s own Dieselgate splash247.com/?p=217181

Splash Annual Review: The path of resistance - Splash247

To be a dry bulk analyst for most of the past three decades has in effect meant being a China watcher. Similarly, being a shipping reporter in the 2020s increasingly equates to being a very close...

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@CricCrazyJohns29 Nov 2024
THE SUPERMAN OF CRICKET 🥶 - THIS IS GLENN PHILIPS 🦁
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@Splash_247 reports on Fleet’s 30 years of growth and evolution in a special issue. The articles include interviews with Fleet’s leaders, as well as future plans. Read the coverage here: splash247.com/fleet-manageme… #Fleetat30 #FleetStories #maritime
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Maritime Week in Hong Kong this week. A complete 84 page guide of all issues to be covered at the show! @SamChambers
Sam Chambers@SamChambers17 Nov 2024
A lot of people will be flying now to Hong Kong for the city's mega maritime week. Get up to speed with the issues uppermost in the minds of shipowners and managers via our brand new bumper HK magazine. Free to read here splash247.com/magazine/hong-…

Hong Kong Market Report 2024 - Splash247

Hong Kong has slipped down the ranks as an international maritime centre over the past two decades. However, the current administration under John Lee is making a concerted effort to regain lost...

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Salaries might be rising, but still plenty of heartaches working at sea. splash247.com/seafarer-salar…

Seafarer salaries still rising in a crew-led market - Splash247

Seafarer salaries are continuing to rise across the globe as the shortage of competent seafarers impacts the shipping industry across all sectors, according to a new survey from Danica Crewing...

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Tom Craig@LTDManagement31 Oct 2024
LNG spot rates nosedive below breakeven splash247.com/lng-spot-rates…

LNG spot rates nosedive below breakeven - Splash247

The LNG shipping markets have gone eerily quiet with many ships operating at below breakeven levels on the spot trades with time charter prices also seriously eroding. Describing the sector as “under...

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@cashsarmax29 Oct 2024
Around 6% of product tanker tonmiles taken by dirty tankers recent months. Should expect them to return to crude trade again. (From Splash247) #Tankers
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TOUR DE FRANCE 2025 Remember that rumour we started years ago about a #Superbagnères finish? Well it's only blooming happening next year! Plus there's 3 other stages within touching distance. Who is coming for our #TDF2025 extravaganza? #manifest
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Maritime CEO Forum Monaco: Navigating extreme volatility in the 2020s dlvr.it/TFp52H
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@Splash_24728 Oct 2024
RATS, bots and reverse proxy phishing: why cyber criminals have shipping in their sights dlvr.it/TFqDzG
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@Splash_24729 Oct 2024
Maritime CEO Forum Monaco: The dark fleet and ageing tanker demographics dominate discussion dlvr.it/TFqw6w
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Charterers might have to accept tankers >20yrs old in the future👀
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“World Fleet by Year of Build” Graphic by Clarkson’s, via Splash
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Concerns raised as ageing fleet becomes the new norm dlvr.it/TFLvQV

Concerns raised as ageing fleet becomes the new norm - Splash247

The remainder of the 2020s will be marked by a global merchant fleet that will get older and older, something charterers, operators and owners will have to accept as the new normal, especially if...

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A new report authored by Robert Howarth, an environmental scientist at @Cornell University in the US, has claimed that LNG exports are 33% worse in terms of planet-heating emissions over a 20-year period compared with coal. So there's that. splash247.com/lng-roars-back…

LNG roars back as leading alternative fuel - Splash247

LNG as shipping’s preeminent alternative fuel continues to make waves, both in terms of newbuild contracts as well as from its fierce opponents. Lobby group SEA-LNG has announced this week that...

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The Roaring Twenties and Volatility Some great insight by @SamChambers on the tumultuous ride the 2020s have been for shipping. I have to agree! splash247.com/?p=213857 via @splash_247
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Black Sea descends into danger zone territory again splash247.com/?p=213656 via @splash_247

Black Sea descends into danger zone territory again - Splash247

The Black Sea has descended into a severe danger zone for merchant shipping with Russian military forces piling into the region and targeting Ukraine’s exports. Having gone all year without any...

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@Splash_2477 Oct 2024
Average newbuild price in 2024 cracks $90m, 30% above previous high dlvr.it/TF4163
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@Splash_2477 Oct 2024
Former MISC CEO takes over from Kishore Rajvanshy at Fleet Management dlvr.it/TF48YH
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@Splash_2477 Oct 2024
Russia claims latest ship target was delivering ammunition to Ukraine dlvr.it/TF49hY
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@Splash_2477 Oct 2024
American port union doubles down on anti-automation rhetoric dlvr.it/TF4DSn
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