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COLUMN | What life was like before MARPOL [Grey Power]
Fifty years have passed since the Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, thankfully abbreviated to MARPOL, emerged from the IMO after...
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.
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REMINISCENCES | On designing the ideal lifejacket
I was looking at an image of a ship’s company at boat drill the other day, the crew all wearing their great bulky lifejackets, which clearly do the...
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COLUMN | Going from triumph to disaster [Grey Power]
It is probably a function of age and cynicism, but one sometimes wonders whether anyone in charge of pretty well anything, from countries to companies,...
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COLUMN | A perfect storm of innovation [Grey Power]
They are all so positive and upbeat about the amazing technology they are introducing to a somewhat bewildered industry that it seems almost treasonable...
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COLUMN | There’s trouble in the tank [Grey Power]
What a terrible fuss there would be if your local filling station that it would be a good idea to make its diesel or petrol (or gasoline for our American...
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COLUMN | Don’t forget the power of the sea [Grey Power]
You do not want to be labelled as too reactionary in these exciting days of ship design, with vessels emerging from the CAD labs that seem to stand...
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COLUMN | When the numbers become dangerous [Grey Power]
Probability, it has been said, can lull you into a false sense of security. We have been reminded of the ill-fated ocean liner Titanic just recently...
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COLUMN | Why humans may still be useful [Grey Power]
We used to talk about the “human element” in the context of it having become something of an afterthought, as technology advanced, and the need to bear...
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COLUMN | What’s to fear about future fuels? [Grey Power]
It doesn’t do to be too fearful about what the future will bring. It is some comfort, a contemporary remarked the other day, that we will have left...
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