Erik Kravets
View from the EU Columnist
Erik Kravets is a founding partner of Kravets & Kravets http://www.kravets.de, a maritime and admiralty law firm providing bespoke solutions to clients navigating the North Sea and beyond. Clients involved in ship brokering and management, offshore, towage and salvage, vessel chartering, cargo handling/stevedoring and carriage of goods by sea come to Mr. Kravets for representation. (Photo: Heina Dannemann http://www.foto-dannemann.com/)
Report Card
How did I do on predicting future events? I’ve made a lot of predictions since 2020, which is when I wrote my last &ldquo...
Ride the White Horses
Pamir, the last sail cargo vessel to operate commercially and at scale, ran her final route in 1957 on behalf of Hamburg’s L...
View From the EU: Vladimir's Coin-Op Laundromat
Current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. General Mark Milley, asserted in February 2022 that Kyiv could fall “wit...
Digging Deeper
A wise commercial once understood that “There are some things money can’t buy.” It turns out one of them is conv...
Advancing in Reverse
Russian pipeline gas is out; so is coal. Yet Europe is still managing to win the energy war and keep warm. As the saying goes: &ld...
When China Shanghais Your Port
Do foreign purchases of critical global infrastructure constitute a security risk? Hamburg’s 883-year-old port has a hist...
View From The EU: What, Don’t You Trust Me?
Shipping is special – and not just in terms of its economic impact, colorful traditions or ability to span continents and br...
The Y-Splitter Conundrum
Why go through the hassle of rebuilding an entire electrical system when you can just pop in a y-splitter? Many shipowners had thi...
The Airbus Model
European manufacturers know this plot: A once proud industry under cost pressure from foreign – chiefly Asian – compet...
Welcome to Asset World
Asset prices are on the rise, signaling a new wave of inflation. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his counterparts li...