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Recent comments: The back-chat. What it’s all about really
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- 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: August 2010
Blinking in the sunlight
As I watch the second quarter results come in from listed shipowners, I can see an increased note of optimism. Management teams are no longer looking down the steep slope of a market heading into recession, but seeing the rosy dawn of recovery on the horizon.
Container markets are up, and as people start buying things [...]
Rule 17 anyone?
Last week when I was undertaking my weekly chore of visiting the supermarket to top up the household inventory of luxury items such as bath cleaner and washing up liquid, I had an unfortunate encounter in the store’s car park.
Having completed the aforementioned tasks I was in my car and manoeuvring carefully towards the exit. [...]
If you can’t be good, keep it covered
IN a survey of 2,000 HIV-positive individuals in the Philippines conducted seven years ago, more of them turned out to be seafarers than prostitutes.That’s a skewed sample, of course, as the country concerned must surely have a higher number of seafarers per head of population than anywhere else on earth, but it does bring home a [...]
Naming and shaming the carbon bad guys
It’s refreshing to see listed companies in the transportation sector being named and shamed by an organisation that aims to give investors information on climate change initiatives.
At first glance the Carbon Disclosure Project looks like yet another do-goody lobby group campaigning for blue skies and clean seas, the kind of organisation full of sandal wearing [...]
The engineer in the middle
Is Golten’s the only repair and maintenance organization aware of the lucrative market coming up when shipowners start trying to get ballast water systems installed on their ships.
The Dubai based company has said it will be focusing on providing installation services and engineers, that very missing link between the manufacturers and the shipowners and their [...]
With extreme prejudice
Ryan Skinner’s blog post (http://5956n.typepad.com/59_56_n/2010/08/ship-with-extreme-prejudice.html) suggesting there is something ignorant in people without sea time have nothing to contribute to the benefit of the industry seems to have started off on an assumption I have never come across myself.
He is assuming that seafaring people – whether currently at sea or now in shore based careers - are in [...]
Walking the plank
So, they let those dastardly pirates go free. Free to run back to their fishing villages and spread the word that it really is a free for all on the high seas. Even being caught by a naval force just means lots of food and water for a few days before being sent home to try [...]
Simon Cowell, SMM and the hidden hippies
I am beginning to wonder if the environmental congress that will be at SMM this year will be another series of talking heads telling everyone, yet again, that something must be done.
There seems to be no shortage of political or industry leaders prepared to stand on their whiter than white soap box and pontificate at these [...]
Titanic II. History and hollywood idiocy repeat themselves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG4kDmxJu7Y
The saying is that you should be careful what you wish for.
Well, here we have the industry represented in a less-than-blockbuster film. Yes, someone has made Titanic II.
It’s about a modern cruise vessel, on the same route and with the same fate as its predecessor, which hits ice, catches fire and then sinks (slowly, to [...]
Speeding tickets