‘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, sometimes humorous, occasionally sarcastic, but always insightful and topical.

And, this week’s ‘Shipshape 10’:

1a. World Trade Flows Grew at Slowest Pace since Financial Crisis (The Wall Street Journal)

1b. Trade and shipping: The world is not flat anymore (Cayman Financial Review, authored by Basil M. Karatzas)

2a. Hanjin Shipping Saga Comes to a Close (The Maritime Executive)

2b. CMA CGM Joins Alibaba’s Freight Booking System (The Maritime Executive)

3. APM Terminals Ups Investments at Port Elizabeth (The Maritime Executive)

4. Why Innovators Should Study the Rise and Fall of the Venetian Empire (Harvard Business Review)

5. Maritime Asset Partners: New Finance Vehicle Backed by Shipping Veterans (Splash 24/7)

6. Gasoline Glut in New York Has Traders Sending Cargoes Abroad (Bloomberg)

7. With Shale Oil Production Like This, Who Needs Trump? (Bloomberg)

8. Female Captains Command Respect, but Not Many Ships (The Wall Street Journal)

9. Who owns Greece’s largest shipyard? (Seatrade)

10. Gibraltar seizes Russian’s superyacht over German debt claim (BBC News)

Bacino di San Marco, Venice ca 1738 (detail), by Canaleto (Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697 – 1768). Cargo boats and gondolas animate Venice’s waterfront entrance and Doge’s palace. Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Image credit: Karatzas Images

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