THE shipping sector’s bi-annual technology festival has inevitably offered up an array of cutting-edge solutions to resolve all the industry’s ills from sulphur to cyber risk, but this time it feels different.

Where Posidonia offered the big pitches and blue sky thinking back in June, this week’s gathering of 50,000 industry professionals is focussing squarely on the nuts and bolts of resolving tangible problems and making real investment decisions.

Our intrepid technology reporter Anastassios Adamopoulos joins the podcast this week live from Hamburg to reflect on the mood from SMM 2018 with our Editor Richard Meade in London.

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