New blockchain platform seeks to take shipowning to the masses.
Project also aims to help small and medium sized shipowners securing financing.
February 4th, 2018 19:06 GMT by Andy Pierce Published in FINANCE
Former DVB man Mitul Dave and two business partners are behind a new platform which is employing blockchain technology with … Read More
Double Duty: ORCA’s Vortex Technology Cleans Plastic from Oceans
ECO
19 JULY 2017
Don’t let the name fool you. The Oil Response Clean-up Apparatus (ORCA) can also be used for cleaning up plastics.
The portable device uses vortex technology to suck plastic debris out of the sea and directly into a receiving tank, … Read More
ORCA uses vortex technology to suck plastics out of the sea with little likelihood of jamming.
A virtually clog-proof marine clean-up machine originally developed to deal with oil spills is being touted as the answer to dealing with the growing … Read More
Shipping is not an industry for the faint-hearted, as private equity has painfully discovered and
experienced shipowners know only too well, while consolidation among Chinese shipyards is not
the panacea some may be hoping for given the enduring nature of the current downturn, writes Riaz
Khan, president and chief executive, Tavlon Commercial Enterprise… Read More
Shipping companies in the Mid-dle East operate as industrial carriers rather than asset players, so it came as no surprise at the well-attended TradeWinds Middle East Shipowners Forum that the position taken by the regions top-tier shipping executives was that success comes from taking a long-term view and adopting an … Read More
On Sunday, 17 January 2016, the date the sanctions on Iran were lifted, National Iranian Tanker Company, (NITC) conducted a well coordinated conference to celebrate, not only the lifting of sanctions but also their 60th founding anniversary.
Ali A Safaei, NITC’s MD & board member, had confidently managed to factor in … Read More
Iran – What Next?
Everyone is awaiting the outcome of the interim nuclear deal and how it will affect Iran’s oil exports. In July 2015,
Iran and a group of six international powers announced that the global sanctions would be lifted in return for
compliance with inspections and restrictions on its nuclear capabilities. … Read More
Wolfgang Driese (left), chairman of DVB Bank, with his wife, Heide, and Riaz Khan
Riaz’ mission when he joined the Bank in Rotterdam twelve years ago was to set up and establish a shipping research department, which … Read More
DVB research and planning chief moves on to pastures new.
LAST Word hears that Riaz Khan, the highly regarded managing director of research and strategic planning at Deutsche Verkehrsbank, is leaving the shipping bank at the end of next month after a 12-year stint.
Khan’s Rotterdam-based … Read More
Tradewinds 01 November 2013 BY GILLIAN WHITTAKER ATHENS
Analyst Riaz Khan revealed to Greek shipping executives the day-to-day mind-boggling complexities facing shipowners and how two people can interpret the same situation very differently — glass half … Read More