COLUMN | The “angry fruit salad” may hamper the development of future tugs [Tug Times]
Anyone who has been to sea on a tug in bad weather, particularly in the bad old days when Inmarsat C was being introduced, will be familiar with the...
Anyone who has been to sea on a tug in bad weather, particularly in the bad old days when Inmarsat C was being introduced, will be familiar with the...
August has seen the Swire Group, one of the oldest British owned shipping companies, in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Swire Pacific’s affiliate...
[caption id="attachment_169047" align="alignnone" width=""]A fish auction on the beach at Chennai, India[/caption]Commercial fishing is an industry...
Three years ago, I wrote that the Australian shipping industry was at the crossroads of existence. It’s now hanging by a thread. We have been continually...
Back in the days when lookouts were posted on ship’s fo’csl’ heads and as well as keeping a good lookout the man had to repeat the time on the ship’s...
[caption id="attachment_168182" align="alignnone" width=""]1947 Mercury Military Roadster[/caption]It was the alleged misdemeanours of an aircraft carrier’s...
[caption id="attachment_167285" align="alignnone" width=""][/caption]Many readers will be aware of the famous instruction in a recipe for hare soup...
[caption id="attachment_166950" align="alignnone" width=""]ALP Keeper – tug or OSV?[/caption]So as I write this it is Independence Day, so we have just...
Ship design, we were brought up to believe is a matter of compromise – and lots of them! A shipowner, who, after all, is paying for the thing, requires...
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