At Singapore Maritime Week, we spent time speaking with operators, startups, and industry leaders to understand a simple question:

What’s actually holding innovation back?

This episode of Innovation to Impact: Road Diaries captures a raw, on-the-ground reflection from the week — not focused on new technology, but on the real challenges behind adoption.

Across conversations, a few themes kept coming up:

• A lack of trust across the industry
• Endless trials without decisions
• The difficulty of balancing impact with competitiveness
• The challenge of taking that first step

As one of the key takeaways from the week:

“no one in the industry really trusts each other”

And perhaps more importantly:

“you just need to get going”

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