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Recent comments: The back-chat. What it’s all about really
- Jayla Hunsinger on Slice of cake at Maersk that leaves a sour taste
- John Miele on Channel ferry operators feel the pinch yet again
- John Miele on Crying foul when there is a whiff of natural gas
- don mitchel on Installation overload may compromise ballast rules
- John Miele on A rabbit on the highway needs to move fast
- Don Mitchel on Installation overload may compromise ballast rules
- Ryan Skinner on Censorship can’t beat the tweet, so why not join it?
- Ryan Skinner on It is time to give shipping the X Factor treatment
- Dr Ivica Tijardovic on No silver bullet in BAE anti-piracy laser
- don mitchel on Installation overload may compromise ballast rules
Monthly Archives: June 2010
What’s in a name?
READ the trade press titles covering most industries, and and the clue really is in the name. Computer Weekly, Travel Trade Gazette, Accountancy Age and Local Government Chronicle pretty much do what they say on the can.
Isn’t it odd, though, how shipping journals prefer to give so little away? Who, for instance, could guess what manner [...]
Hurricane Hayward, the oil and the blame
I’ve been reading with interest the political hurricane that’s brewing over the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP chief executive Hayward has been labelled the most the most hated and clueless man in America. Very little mud seems to have landed on Transocean so far - this is the company that was after all owning and [...]
Y no MBAs @ WMU?
Seems like the courses on offer at the World Maritime University do not include any programs – urgh, I hate those US spellings! – in any financial disciplines.
Maybe that explains why Lloyd’s List is reporting that the place could go bust as early as next year, with ’serious concerns’ over the lack of transparency, and [...]
Shut up and pay
Has anyone noticed Bonn? Probably not. While all eyes are on the Greek shipowners and their slimmed down bank accounts during Posidonia, no one has paid any attention to the next meeting of the UNFCCC which is taking place in Germany. It it will undoubtedly turn out to be nothing more than a stop gap [...]
That bad egg smell
What exactly do the North European manufacturing and shipping companies hope to achieve by questioning the IMO’s emission control ruling? There’s not a cat’s chance in hell that the European Commission is going to take up their fight. Firstly the Commission is very pro emissions reduction, it even has a port emission limit just as tough as [...]
More on offer, please
Just like the drive to get as much out of every tonne of bunker fuel used on a ship, so is the drive to get as much out of the crew, the second major drain of a ship operator’s coffers.
Does slow steaming mean we can get a drop in crew numbers as the ships won’t [...]
What piracy is, and what piracy is not
MY THREE-year-old daughter delights in books that feature Maisy Mouse, a fictitious rodent who is something of a superstar among the kindergarten demographic. In one story, this verminous creature dresses up in a skull and crossbones outfit.
Charming, no? I mean, it’s not as if children’s books typically glorify the activities of armed robbers who stick [...]
Shifting shipyards