May Features


p2 Publisher’s greeting. Aldert van Nieuwkoop welcomes readers to the fifth issue of 2014.


p7 Cleveland Express. It has some


formidable players…. The Spliethoff Group manages a large and modern fleet of well over 100 multipurpose, heavy-lift and ro-ro vessels ranging in size from 2,100 to 23,000 tonnes. The Spliethoff Group managed vessels have 1A Ice Class and several even 1A SUPER. They all sail under the Dutch flag. To ensure its customers have access to the latest technology in shipping the fleet is constantly being renewed.


p11 Breakbulk Europe - Breaking New Ground? This past May 12th May, the breakbulk who-is-who gathered again in Antwerp to meet, conference and exhibit all what’s worth in the break- bulk industry.


p 7 p 2 p 15 p 24 5 p 11 p 17 p 19 p 25 May 2014


p15 Biofuel on the Great Lakes. Our highly experienced friend Stan Shumway shares some insights into the formative pre planning that proceeded one of North America’s largest, successful biofuel processing plants.


p19 Great Lakes Update. Ken Westcar re- examines the status of the Great Lakes water quality.


p24 Hello CEO. Marine Matters revisits our interview with Anne Waldes from mid 2013.


p25 Is This the Brink of War? Research into the ‘Crisis in Crimea’ is soon overwhelmed by the complexity of the larger issue of Russian-Western relations. By the time that Russian imperial forces of Catherine the Great seized control of Crimea from the Ottoman Turks in 1783 the ground had been blood-soaked many times. It didn’t end there.


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