‘Shipshape 10 List’, a list of news and articles published in the current week that a senior executive in shipping, shipping finance, commodities, energy, supply chain and infrastructure should had noticed; news and articles that are shaping the agenda and the course of the maritime industry.

Sometimes seemingly tangential, periodically humorous, occasionally sarcastic, sporadically artistic, inferentially erotic, but always insightful and topical.

And, this week’s ‘Shipshape 10’:

1a. A Blind Spot Masks the Danger Signs in Finance (Financial Times)

1b. Shadow Lending Threatens China’s Economy, Officials Warn (The New York Times)

2. The Man Who Made Us See That Trade Isn’t Always Free (Bloomberg)

3. The World Economy is Picking up (The Economist)

4. Imagine a Silicon Valley of the Sea (Bloomberg)

5a. Missing from Trump’s Grand Navy Plan: Skilled Workers to Build the Fleet (Reuters)

5b. Critics warn Trump that gutting foreign aid will endanger U.S. (Politico) (probably a very bad development for the American Flag fleet and shipowners in the USA – please note, American flagged vessels are not ‘Jones Act’ vessels with same cabotage privileges; see Cargo Preference Act).

6. Port of Amsterdam to Phase Out Coal Terminal (The Maritime Executive)

7a. Blockchain: A Transitional and Transformational Technology for Shipping (Splash 24/7)

7b. Ocean Shipping Transaction Firm INTTRA Buys Container Tracking Company Avantida (The Wall Street Journal, Logistics Report)

8. The Great Barrier Reef had a Pretty Terrible Year (Popular Science)

9. Subsea Salmon Farming Project Hits Snag (The Maritime Executive)

10. Whose Sea is It Anyway? Photo Essay: Coast of Vietnam (1843 Magazine)

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