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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The recent pictures of the gigantic Evergreen containership sitting forlornly across the Suez Canal, bow and stern hard aground on the sand, with a...
There is no doubt about the way the wind is blowing when it comes to “sustainable” power, and a coastal state that has no plans for offshore wind farms...
Fatigue, I was reading recently, has become a major problem in our meanly manned ships of today. The obvious solution would be to increase the available...
What is going on in the North Pacific, as scarcely a week goes by without stacks of containers hurling themselves into the sea as ships roll extravagantly...
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