Kent Stewart, Author at Baird Maritime

March 20, 2020

REMINISCENCES | The Dockers of Australia

Written by Kent Stewart on March 20, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Ausmarine Vessel Reviews, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Port World, Work Boat World Features.

No history of Australian shipping would be complete without mention of one of its most notorious and colourful species, the ships painters and dockers. Formally known as ..

October 18, 2019

COLUMN | Scrubbed out [The Boroscope]

Written by Kent Stewart on October 18, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Boxship World, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Ships & Ports, Dry Cargo World, Offshore World, Ship World Features, Tanker World, Work Boat World Features.

“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 ..

May 9, 2019

COLUMN | Global sulphur cap 2020 – Don’t panic! (Part 2) [The Boroscope]

Written by Kent Stewart on May 9, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Offshore World, Ship World.

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 ..

November 21, 2019

HISTORY | Australian shipping – the early days

Written by Kent Stewart on November 21, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Dry Cargo World, Ship World Features, Work Boat World Features.

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 ..

October 16, 2019

REMINISCENCES | The amazing adventures of HMAS Jeparit

Written by Kent Stewart on October 16, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Maritime Security, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Maritime Security, Dry Cargo World, Naval auxiliary/support vessels, Work Boat World Features.

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 ..

April 17, 2019

COLUMN | Global sulphur cap 2020 – Don’t panic! (Part 1) [The Boroscope]

Written by Kent Stewart on April 17, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Ship World.

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 ..

October 30, 2019

REMINISCENCES | Larrikinism 101

Written by Kent Stewart on October 30, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Maritime Security, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Maritime Security, Dry Cargo World, Naval, Ship World Features, Work Boat World Features.

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 ..

August 12, 2019

COLUMN | Australian shipping hanging by a thread [The Boroscope]

Written by Kent Stewart on August 12, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Maritime Security World, Ship World, Ship World Features, Work Boat World Features.

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 ..

April 9, 2019

COLUMN | With dredging, beauty is in the eye of the beholder [The Boroscope]

Written by Kent Stewart on April 9, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Marine Projects, Dredging and Land Reclamation.

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 ..