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U.S. Navy Opts for Block Buy for Two Ford-Class Carriers

By The Maritime Executive

January 3, 2019

On New Years' Eve, the Pentagon finalized plans to buy the third and fourth Ford-class aircraft carriers at one time in a money-saving "block buy" deal. The arrangement will save the Navy an estimated...

Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: 2018 in Review

By Sean M. Holt

January 3, 2019

“What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted thir...

Cognitive Dissonance

By Sean M. Holt

January 2, 2019

The rate of accelerated change has become exponential. Staying on top of the reading alone is a full-time job, let alone trying to decide on strategies that either endorse or oppose each new developme...

Breakbulk Rising

By Tom Peters

December 26, 2018

Maritime research consultancy Drewry suggested earlier this year in its “Multipurpose Forecaster and Annual Review” that the multipurpose shipping market, which includes both breakbulk and project car...

Building Resilience

By Craig Eason

December 26, 2018

A recent story in Wired, a popular technology magazine, makes for uncomfortable reading for any employee at AP Møller Maersk, the Danish shipping conglomerate. The article lays bare, and in detail, th...

A Force Awakens

By Sean M. Holt

December 25, 2018

In a remote corner of the developing world, a third-party logistics (3PL) driver accepts the terms of a digital smart contract through a mobile app on his smart phone to pick up a refrigerated contain...

Former Manager of CSIC Expelled from Chinese Communist Party

By The Maritime Executive

December 17, 2018

Sun Bo, the former general manager of giant shipbuilding conglomerate CSIC, has been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party on allegations of bribery. In June, the CCP's Central Commission for...

Navigating the Waters of a Convention on Business and Human Rights

By Alejandro Guzmán Woodroffe

December 15, 2018

In 2005, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, now the Human Rights Council, requested the U.N. Secretary General, through its resolution 2005/69, to appoint a Special Representative on the issue of Hu...

Imported Fish Raise New Tensions Between China and Kenya

By Maina Waruru

December 7, 2018

Besides his regular job as an accountant at Kenyatta National Hospital in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, Geoffrey Ombati Osoro owns two fish distribution stores in the city, and another in the western town...

Security Forces May Accompany China's Belt and Road Abroad

By The Lowy Interpreter

November 30, 2018

[By David Brewster] Last week’s attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi by Baluchi separatists underlines China’s growing vulnerabilities in connection with its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). T...

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