As we hurtle towards ever-greater levels of autonomy, it was predictable to read about proposed UK regulations for the self-driving car, which will enable the person in c ..
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.
If you refuse to carry cargo that you disapprove of, are you being responsible and ethical, or, in the words of the old saying, cutting off your nose to spite your face? ..
I was reading about an account of a recent accident involving a ship’s lifeboat, but not a serious one, thank goodness, with a man having to be fished out of the water. ..
Some of my best friends design ships for a living, but in their quest to devise dramatic solutions to the problems of decarbonising the shipping industry, I sometimes won ..
There are some problems that never seem to go away and one is the perennial difficulties in providing a safe way of getting pilots on and off a ship. Not every port can r ..
Events such as the London International Maritime Week are held from time to time to generate some interest in the maritime world among those who mostly don’t have a clu ..
It is not often that you read a genuine “good news story” these days, but one that warmed the winter hearts in the UK was the tale of a dog that was rescued from a wa ..
I was looking at a photo of a research ship back from a voyage to the Polar regions, although you wouldn’t have known it from the pristine state of the hull. There was ..
There seems to be a common factor in many of these cases of short sea ships running aground on their coastal passages after the officer of the watch has omitted to alter ..
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