Category: Shipping, International Trade and Logistics
Shipping, International Trade and Logistics

Supply Chains Shake Ups – Building Flexibility and Resilience for Business Transformation

Key players from the shipping industry were in Singapore last week for Singapore Maritime Week (SMW) and the Singapore Shipping Forum, where themes discussed included decarbonisation, digitisation of the shipping sector and improving the flexibility of supply chains. The industry has undergone a period of significant change and instability over the past few years.…
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3 May 2023
Shipping, International Trade and Logistics

Singapore’s National Hydrogen Strategy and What it Means for Shipping Industry Stakeholders

One of the panel sessions on this year’s Singapore Maritime Week explored the potential readiness for alternative fuel options such as hydrogen as well as the associated operational infrastructure challenges and opportunities.

Cleaner fuels are increasingly emerging as alternatives to the bunker fuels currently used to power vessels.…
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3 May 2023
Shipping, International Trade and Logistics

Singapore As The Asian Forum To Arbitrate Maritime Disputes

The nature of maritime disputes can be complex and wide ranging; disputes can arise out of ship mortgages, ship repairs, demurrage, wharfage and dockage, charterparties, marine insurance, seafarer’s employment, and collisions.

Due to the multi-jurisdictional nature of shipping, the enforceability arbitration awards is also crucial as assets are often located in different jurisdictions.…
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31 December 2022
Shipping, International Trade and Logistics

Shipbuilding Contracts: Practical Issues and Considerations

In very recent years, there has been an increase in the number of shipbuilding contracts for the first time following the 2008 financial crisis. Many vessels commissioned around the shipping boom of 2005 are now approaching middle age. The push for greener shipping (along with the incentives that follow) also provide an incentive for companies to invest in newer and greener vessels using new fuel technologies.…
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31 December 2022
Shipping, International Trade and Logistics

Hope For Carriers Facing Misdelivery Claims: The Singapore Courts Signal A Need For Closer Scrutiny of Circumstances Surrounding Banks’ Financing Arrangements And Delivery of Cargo

The Singapore High Court in The “Miracle Hope” (Admiralty in Rem No. 45 of 2020, Registrar’s Appeal No. 298 of 2021 (unreported)) dismissed an appeal by a bank against an Assistant Registrar’s decision to grant the defendant shipowner unconditional leave to defend.…
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18 October 2022
Shipping, International Trade and Logistics

The Future of Autonomous Shipping Lies in Cyber Resilience

In the last issue of Calypso, we talked about the legal considerations and implications linked to the world of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS).

This follow-up article will dig a little deeper into the related cybersecurity risks and issues, one of the key challenges that autonomous ships owners and operators will face as the MASS market entrenches itself into the wider maritime sector.…
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15 September 2022

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