With the dust having settled on another Farnborough Airshow, I can’t help thinking of the famous French maxim “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (the more things change, the more they stay the same). Any hope that the passenger eVTOL industry had begun descending from the Gartner hype cycle’s “peak of inflated expectations”…
Introduction Much of the discussion surrounding automated and smart shipping focuses on navigation, propulsion, remote operations and artificial intelligence. Yet one of the industry’s biggest opportunities to improve safety, efficiency and profitability lies somewhere far less glamorous: cargo handling. For many commercial applications, automated shipping is perhaps the more appropriate term than autonomous shipping. While…
Introduction One of the beauties of our work as market intelligence analysts is the opportunity to interview fascinating people and companies. Better still is speaking to the same companies over many years and seeing how their businesses evolve as technology, competition, and customer requirements change. In the autumn of 2022, Valour Consultancy interviewed MarPoint, then…
Introduction Recently, I was listening to Morgan Housel, the renowned financial self-help author of The Psychology of Money. Morgan’s podcasts are information-packed, last 15 minutes, and leave you pondering the assumptions for hours afterwards. The podcast I was digesting was The Art and Science of Investing. Housel argues that successful investing is only partly about…
To say Starlink increased its connectivity prices in business aviation is an understatement. Starlink, without any warning, doubled the cost of connectivity to all business aviation users, new and old, effective immediately. What does this mean for the market as we know it today? When Starlink entered the market in 2022, it was more than…
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