It’s a great saying but there is a lot of it about at present. I thought of it first looking at pictures of the shrieking mobs of environmental protesters outside the ..
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.
It got to us all in the end, when the supposed attractions of shore-side life began to outweigh those we once enjoyed afloat. To a few, seafaring never lost its lure; I ..
When did the tarnish first appear on the “golden age” of shipping in which we were accused of living, all those years ago? When did the power of the ..
What a lot of effort we used to go to as we made sure your foodstuffs sourced from the far side of the world arrived in tip-top condition! Nowadays it is all shovelled ..
It is a terrible thing to see, a big ship wrecked and torn apart by a remorseless ocean. The miserable pictures of the giant bulker on the once pristine shores of ..
It appeared, at first glance, to be an ancient artefact, something that demanded the attention of skilled archaeologists, with their carbon dating machinery, after some ..
It is an argument that has reverberated around both the UK (where this is being written) and Australia. It is one that sets ideas of national self-sufficiency against the ..
“Disasters are like buses,” says an old saying – “When you don’t want them, they come in threes.” It was an incident-packed couple of weeks on ..
This is being written on the “International Day of the Seafarer”, June 25, which, if you consider the way that society is currently treating this essential workforce, ..
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