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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Sammy Ofer could save Ark Royal so why can’t we?
THE Royal Navy’s only active aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal, is conducting a farewell tour of the UK. After that, it will be sent to the breakers.
What a pathetic decision that is. The three sisterships, HMS Invincible, HMS Illustrious and Ark Royal, were designated through-deck command cruisers. Two have been mothballed for some years and [...]
Slice of cake at Maersk that leaves a sour taste
THE likelihood is that Marie Antoinette never really did say ‘qu’ils mangent de la brioche’, loosely translated as ‘let ’em eat cake’. It takes a 21st century shipping executive to be as insensitive as that.
The story is that Louis XVI’s missus proffered this dismissive rejoinder on being told that the peasantry was starving for want [...]
No one is watching. Honest.
Don’t worry about Cancun. Nothing’s going to happen. It will probably be the same hot air, with the same embarrassing non-result being touted as some kind of result. I notice the UNFCC meeting is not getting as many column inches in the general press as Copenhagen did a year ago. Clearly the expectations are a lot [...]
Treat today’s seafarers with the respect they deserve
NOVEMBER is the month when many countries remember their war dead, and the commemoration of Armistice Day is a tradition that, in Britain at least, seems to be growing in strength.
Awareness has been boosted by the deaths of our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and it is fair to say that attention focuses predominantly on [...]
A date with history
THE Suez Canal opened to shipping 141 years ago this month. Its birthday on the 19th reminded me of my first two breathtaking encounters with the waterway.
As a seventeen year-old cadet serving with a large British liner company, I entered the canal in a southbound convoy. At this stage of the transit, the canal is [...]
What goes around comes around
CHRISTMAS comes but once a year, but that’s nothing. The BIMCO/ISF ‘personpower’ survey – as I believe I must now refer to it, given Lloyd’s List’s proscription of gender-specific terminology in these matters – comes but once every five years.
And when it does, it usually brings bleak depression rather than good cheer. The 2010 edition [...]
Clearing the dust, but no spring clean
Has anyone noticed the new website for the International Maritime Organization?
That organ of the UN focused on shipping has had an online image revamp and even comes complete with links to its own Twitter, Facebook and You Tube pages.
This revamp comes a few months after the IMO put out a job advert looking for a [...]
Isn’t it ironic?…
Let’s face it, the shift to a more environmentally aware society is playing havoc with the shipping industry.
Shipping companies and marine engineering firms that once ignored the ‘radical’ environmental campaigners such as Greenpeace are now openly talking to them. One CEO from a European shipping company once confessed his long haired hippy past to me, [...]
There’s competition for gas
Gas is getting competitive. Very competitive. It has also become the hottest topic in certain circles as its potential to kill more than two environmental birds with one stone becomes apparent.
But while short sea shippers see LNG as a means to meet emission targets and avoid costly distillates, there is a land based development that could [...]
ECDIS from the eye of the pilot