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Inevitable World Cup post

By Bill in a bad mood | Published: June 30, 2010
No statistically significant correlation between a nation’s shipping clout and the prowess of its national football team has ever been recorded  This is just as well, because otherwise World Cup victory would simply alternate in perpetuity between Greece and Norway. In the event, neither of them even made it into the 2010 competition. Let us consider England’s pathetic [...]
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The uses of super-slow steaming

By Bill in a bad mood | Published: June 16, 2010
‘Super-slow steaming unlikely to generate carbon credits’, according to a headline on the Lloyd’s List website right now. Maybe not. But Mrs B tells me it is still by far the best way to cook asparagus.
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What’s in a name?

By Bill in a bad mood | Published: June 10, 2010
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 [...]
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Y no MBAs @ WMU?

By Bill in a bad mood | Published: June 4, 2010
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 [...]
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