Will what we used to think of as “normal” ever return? Black swans used to be rare, but now they are coming by the squadrons, like migrating geese, as one daft occurr ..
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.
Just for a change, there is some good “pandemic news” for seafarers, care of the Royal Belgian Shipowners’ Association. The Belgian government has put in hand a sch ..
It’s an obvious point and one that probably occurred to Malcom McLean at some stage, that you can leave a container out in the rain and nobody minds if it gets wet. But ..
It is strange how crises creep up on one, moving surreptitiously between a cloud on a far horizon to a full-blown storm, without very much warning. We have a logistics hu ..
The master’s instructions were short and to the point as he briefed his new fourth mate who had just joined, the ink on his second mate’s certificate scarcely dry. Af ..
There is a great deal of angst amid the farming community in the UK about the contents of a free trade deal between the newly independent United Kingdom and Australia. Lu ..
There is a poem I learned as a child about how a battle was lost because of the want of a horseshoe nail. I occasionally think about it when some stupendous plan collapse ..
It may be unfashionable to say so, and had I been on anti-social media I would be probably “cancelled” for even suggesting it, but isn’t it time we cut the Internat ..
Just suppose the master of the containership Ever Given, as his ship came up the top of the Red Sea and approached the Suez Canal, had scrutinised the weather reports for ..
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