Neville Smith, founder of Mariner Communications, providing bespoke PR and media consultancy to the shipping industry. Sailors' Society Ambassador.

Not Far From London
Joined March 2012
Immediate sanctions on #Norway and #Venezuela I’d assume?
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@123reg your webmail and login pages are down.
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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…
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“Shadow tankers carrying Russian oil pass through European waters, including in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean, several times per day,” he adds. “Several incidents have already happened and a major disaster is really only a question of time.” ft.com/content/b9dee3f3-c2f8…
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‘It blows my mind that an OEM can install equipment on your ship and charge you half a million dollars to open up a data port. It’s mafia behaviour,’ Ceataec tells @MaritimeSmart standards panel.
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Somebody please tell the ‘LNG or nothing’ lobby.
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Applying the rule of inevitable opposites, who is the commissioner for the unsustainable bit of transport?
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In today's "things that sound like a good idea but fiendishly difficult to achieve in practice", I give you global carbon pricing.
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#SMM exhibition halls evacuated for second time in two years as emergency alarm sounds.
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Hapag-Lloyd shoots down win/lose fuel choice argument at @ABSeagle #SustainabilitySummit. “It’s not a casino where you choose between black and red’.
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‘But from up here, it looks so small…’ Nine halls of shipping tech are quietly waiting for tomorrow’s onslaught. The view from the ⁦@ABSeagle⁩ #SustainabilitySummit at #SMM2024.
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Interesting they went @FT-first on this rather than maritime media (who followed up yesterday). Perhaps they wanted to avoid the predictable eye-rolling? #RedSea #Seafarers #PoseidonPrinciples
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.@EUmaritimewatch reports "EU working on US$100 per tonne worldwide carbon price; non-payers can't leave port"
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Project delays and hold-ups are likely to push out #LNG supply constraints in global markets by a year or more, the US’s largest producer said. Welcome to the @energytransition (again). tradewindsnews.com/gas/lng-m…
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Welcome to the energy transition @Virgin.
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