We take modern communications for granted these days and are exasperated beyond belief if our amazing mobile phone, for some reason, cannot get a signal. But ship to shor ..
Author: Michael Grey
Maritime industry legend, and former long-term editor of Lloyds List, Michael Grey kicks off each month with topical issues affecting the maritime world at large.
What do ports mean to society? It probably depends upon the identity of those asking the question. A sensible person, alert to the advantages of trade, would conclude tha ..
The ships, emphasised the Prime Minister, no less, “are to be run on commercial lines”, a memorandum stating confidently that “rigid economy, combined with the high ..
As everyone raves on about “net zero” while lighting fires on the pavement outside the IMO building to keep the protesters warm (as the “Just stop oil” fanatics i ..
Regulation, as the lucky passengers of Titanic might have reflected as they sat in their freezing lifeboats, takes some time to catch up with reality. It is not particula ..
It is both good news and a recognition of a long-felt need that a powerful consortium of technical expertise is being put to work to address the worrying problem of fires ..
With winter storms whirling around the northern hemisphere, masters of containerships will be worrying about whether the lashing gangs in their last ports were as particu ..
I was reading some remarks written recently by a very senior pilot who clearly has boarded an awful lot of ships in his long career. He is increasingly concerned about th ..
It is interesting to see just how the importance of ships has suddenly imprinted itself on the public attention, after decades of oblivion, with their presence taken for ..
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