[caption id="attachment_166072" align="alignnone" width=""]Icebreaker Murtaja in the port of Helsinki in the 1890s. Murtaja remained in service for...
There is not a lot of maritime news in the mainstream media. I went to the funeral of the last shipping correspondent who worked for a daily broadsheet...
[caption id="attachment_70116" align="alignnone" width=""]Stellar Daisy in 2013[/caption]It seemed a good idea at the time to get hold of some very...
[caption id="attachment_69648" align="alignnone" width=""]Ocean Steamers Wharf, Port Adelaide, circa 1950[/caption]It was a photograph of one of these...
[caption id="attachment_69504" align="alignnone" width=""]Maersk Honam salvage[/caption]You should, as the song instructs us, always look on the bright...
These days, when corruption has gone inter-continental and there is so much money laundering, you don’t wonder why the banknotes are dirty, I sometimes...
I never sailed in the West African trades, but I know several people who looked back with the fondest memories of voyages to that part of the world,...
I don’t know how they cope these days with all the electronic equipment, which keeps ship systems together, having to be updated or even replaced, every...
Ships, you might think, are the customers of ports and their main (sometimes the only) source of revenue. So you might think that visiting ships would...
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