One winter’s night in 1889 the sleek new P&O mail steamer, Britannia was making her way up the east coast of Australia at a very respectable 15 knots when the mate ..
Author: Kent Stewart
Founder of Maritime Engineers, a multi-region maritime consultancy with clients in the oil and gas industry, navy, commercial shipping and marine insurance, Kent Stewart is our resident expert on commercial shipping and the offshore industries.
For most of the last century Australia was involved in war. In the two world wars alone, Australia committed over forty merchant ships as troop carriers, hospital ships ..
We are only months away from an event which will not only change world shipping forever but possibly the world’s economy as well. On January 1, 2020, the IMO will ..
Larrikin: a mischievous young person an uncultivated, rowdy but good natured person- a person who acts with apparent disregard for social or political convention. A ..
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 losing ships ..
Dredging is a strange business. Dredgers aren’t seen as things of beauty and all the action takes place underwater so there’s not much to see. On harbour beds ..
“Nobody fits an open loop scrubber on their ship to clean the environment”. These are the words of legendary US based Norwegian ship financier, Morten Arntzen. Morten ..
There’s no better way to sell newspapers to an unsuspecting public than to instill a bit of fear and panic into their lives. Yet the world’s press hasn’t cottoned ..
The theme for this year’s IMO World Maritime Day is “Empowering Women in the Maritime Community”. A fine sentiment that marks a long and arduous road for women not ..
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