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By Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) – The strike paralyzing 36 American East and Gulf Coast ports has taken a dark turn. What began as a labor dispute over

OpEd (gCaptain) Today the shipping industry has access to many channels of low-cost information as websites like gCaptain, Splash 24/7, and Maritime Executive

German cruise line operator Hapag-Lloyd Cruises has found itself in the middle of an online firestorm after a guard shot and killed a polar bear during a shore

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Group, a Geneva-based and family-owned company which has historically shied away from communicating with the public about their

While at the CMA conference in Connecticut this spring, I had the opportunity to speak alongside my media industry peers as well as crisis communications

While at the Connecticut Maritime Association Conference this year, I was invited to speak to the audience about the topic of social media and its influence

The video, titled "A Glimpse Into The Lives Of Somali Pirates", attempts to tackle the issue of Somali piracy with some general yet easily digestible facts and

By Ole Mikkelsen COPENHAGEN, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Who would have thought a container shipping firm could rally as many Facebook “likes” as a

There are all sorts of statistics embedded in articles that discuss social media and its influence within the shipping and offshore industry, as well as its

In about two months, energy supermajor Royal Dutch Shell gained a Facebook following of almost 1 million.  The world’s largest shipping company, Maersk,

A tweet sent out by a fake twitter account meant to parody a Tennessee diet expert sparked fears of a possible bio-attack aboard a Carnival cruise ship over

Yea right… Yuri van der Sluis interviews social media expert Scott Stratten at the B2B Marketing Forum in Amsterdam, on 20 March 2012. The interview was

– By Amie Pascoe, Director, BLUE Communications The way that we communicate is fundamentally changing. As a society, our appetite for information and

10 years ago I remember someone saying that we’re all connected to one another by no more than 7 degrees of separation, but with the advent of Facebook,

By Rob Almeida, gCaptain In case you never noticed, the global maritime and offshore energy industry can be pretty damn old school in how they do things.  

Marine and offshore e-marketplace, ShipServ, this week released the results of its annual Internet Use in Shipping Survey at the SmartShipping conference in

In celebration of the world’s seafarers, the International Maritime Organization is urging the public to turn to their facebook and twitter accounts to

They’re both about localisation, but that doesn’t make them apples and apples By Ryan Skinner (email) You probably already know AIS. The

gCaptain asked forum members to submit ideas when developing the ship tracking iPhone Application gTrax. The USCG has used social media for the last few years

The Digital Age – A conversation with Admiral Thad Allen, Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with Admiral Thad Allen, Commandant of the United