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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Pensioner’s trip by raft is both daft and dangerous
AN 84-year-old British man who can only walk with the aid of a stick has concocted a homemade raft from plastic gas pipes. Together with three of his pals, he has stocked this novel vessel up with rum and whisky, and is about to sail it 2,800 miles from the Canaries to the Bahamas. It’s [...]
Owners dream of a return to champagne capesize rates
WHAT can $6,700 a day buy you?
A decadent villa for a night at an exclusive resort on a Caribbean island? A gourmet dinner and some very old wine at an extremely upmarket restaurant? Or, if you saved it up for a year, the $2.5m hoard might just buy you a pokey flat in central [...]
If lines have bigger ships, then why not bigger boxes?
HAVE you stopped to think about how much cargo an 18,000 teu boxship can carry?
It is staggering. Leaving aside the technological wonder of such a behemoth, the sheer volume of consumable goods that will appear on the high street shelves as a result of 9,000 40 ft boxes filled with Asian electronics and other products [...]
Engines may be essential — but who needs a crew?
MAN Diesel Primserv’s recent contract to maintain 150 engines onboard 25 of the largest gas ships in the world shows where the industry is heading.
The european engine maker will provide the engineering expertise and knowledge to help monitor the condition of and maintain the shipboard engines, all of which are modern complex electronic controlled units.
Finnish [...]
It is time to give shipping the X Factor treatment
JUST how much do you know about medical technology? There is a range of companies, services and systems for the development of equipment that help doctors detect and treat an increasing range of ailments.
What? You don’t now much about it? The people in the industry, the highly trained researchers, doctors and engineers, think it is [...]
European shippers fear backlash over emissions rule
THIS week a Finnish shipowner said it would be fitting a scrubber on one of its ships this summer.
The company operates a fleet of small containerships around the Baltic and North Seas and as such is likely to be one of those behind last year’s letter to the European Commission asking for help in turning [...]
It is time for shipping to recruit more women
RECRUITERS in the shipping industry are like King Canute and the tide, fighting a losing battle.
The clear trend is for young, would-be seafarers, to shun the joys of a captive environment, the heady risks and adventures of dodging pirates and the growing trend of criminalisation, for one of languid TV and computer screens.
I can not [...]
Grubby side of shipping’s would-be green image
WHAT exactly is sustainable shipping, or carbon neutral shipping?
In recent years marketers, public relations gurus and other wordsmiths have got their grubby paws on shipping’s green image, or rather its not-so-green image.
The result sometimes is meaningless, pointless phrases that do more to irritate and confuse than to provide any clarity. Ships are part of a [...]
No silver bullet in BAE anti-piracy laser
PREDICTABLE derision has greeted the announcement that BAE Systems has developed a laser system capable of disorienting pirates from up to a mile away. ‘Shiver me, er, lasers?’ is the headline on the Time website, for instance, while once security issues blog quips: ‘Weaponized laser beams: pirates may need to invest in eye patches.’
Fortunately, there [...]
Help the Somalis to defeat piracy themselves