Braced for long and hard storm

Posted on December 1, 2015 by | Leave a comment

TTelegraph Logohe Telegraph article paints a dim picture for the shipping business.

 

The global maritime industry is enduring hardships likely to affect it for ever

Source: Shipping industry braced for storm to blow long and hard – Telegraph

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Four fundamentals of workplace automation

Posted on December 1, 2015 by | Leave a comment

An excellent article on automation. It will be specific activities in jobs that will be automated. So each of us will see large pieces of our jobs go away, not just low income work.  and much dangerous or low skill work will not go away since it cannot be automated well.   It has many ramifications for industries like ocean shipping. Will the captain’s and mate’s job disappear? No, but many of the things they do will, and jobs will need to be consolidated.

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As the automation of physical and knowledge work advances, many jobs will be redefined rather than eliminated—at least in the short term. A McKinsey Quarterly article.

Source: Four fundamentals of workplace automation

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France’s CMA CGM Favorite in NOL Bid

Posted on November 17, 2015 by | Leave a comment

Updated 2015 11 22

Now it is an exclusive with CMA/CGM.

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Source: NEWS FLASH: NOL enters exclusive acquisition talks with CMA CGM | AS Daily Newsletter | AS Daily | American Shipper

 

More gossip about the takeover of NOL.

Shipper Neptune Orient Lines was trading 6.6% higher at $1.135 a share, outperforming the broader index’s 0.8% gain, following news overnight that CMA CGM SA, the French container transportation and shipping company, is emerging as an early favorite to buy the company.

Source: France’s CMA CGM Tipped as Favorite in Neptune Orient Lines Bid – Supply Chain 24/7

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