Having reviewed every imaginable type of emergency services vessel from all over the world for more than forty years, I never cease to be amazed at the endless innovation ..
Author: Neil Baird
Co-founder and former Editor-in-Chief of Baird Maritime and Work Boat World magazine, Neil has travelled the length and breadth of this planet in over 40 years in the business. He knows the global work boat industry better than anyone.
First, as an older reader who finds 660 pages of book a bit hard to handle, especially while lying on a sofa, your reviewer was delighted that this excellent book was div ..
Both our vessel week features this week are replete with more than our usual issue of superlatives. In these days of rapidly and constantly improving vessels, those super ..
In this time of phenomenal output from shipyards building vessels for the wider workboat, passenger vessel, and maritime security industry, the tug sector stands out as o ..
Maritime security vessels are ever more closely aligned with those in our other focus this week, which is on unmanned vessels. There is considerable crossover between bot ..
A large part of the offshore service vessel market these days comprises those that service offshore wind farms. How long that remains the case, of course, remains to be s ..
Apart from a few isolated weeks here and there, the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have barely slowed or even noticeably affected the marine projects sector. Ports and other ..
This is probably the fastest evolving sector of the whole maritime industry. Crew shortages and a growing unwillingness to spend long periods at sea are affecting the com ..
The very important “breakthrough” Battle of the Bismarck Sea has been largely forgotten and barely commemorated. This seems to have been largely at the behest of Gen ..
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