REMINISCENSES | Anchoring in hope
I was reading about that poor shipmaster dragged ashore in Australia to face criminal charges after his containership allegedly fouled the West Australia-Singapore...
I was reading about that poor shipmaster dragged ashore in Australia to face criminal charges after his containership allegedly fouled the West Australia-Singapore...
If you remember what a tonnage hatch was, you are probably coasting along to retirement, or to put it politely, in the autumn of your life. To refresh...
There is a rather sad letter from a member in the current issue of the Nautical Institute’s Seaways magazine asking a question for which there...
It is funny how different items of news mesh with each other. COP 26 is over, thank goodness and the thousands of delegates have jetted off to their...
It didn’t take long after the autumn equinox before the storms in the northern oceans were racking up their first substantial container losses, something...
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,...
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....
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...
Just for a change, there is some good “pandemic news” for seafarers, care of the Royal Belgian Shipowners’ Association. The Belgian government has put...
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