Ship World Features Archives

April 14, 2021

COLUMN | Living on a diet of garbage [Tug Times]

Written by Alan Loynd on April 14, 2021. Posted in Boxship World, Harbour Tugs and Operation, Salvage Operations, Ship World Features, Ship World Vessel Reviews, Work Boat World Features, Work Boat World Vessel Reviews.

I long ago stopped believing almost anything I read in the press, and the recent blockage of the Suez Canal has spawned another round of questionable reporting. One BBC ..

March 29, 2021

COLUMN | Notes from an essential service provider [Tug Times]

Written by Alan Loynd on March 29, 2021. Posted in Boxship World, Dredging and Land Reclamation, Dry Cargo World, Harbour Tugs and Operation, Pollution/Rubbish Cleanup, Salvage Operations, Ship World Features, Ship World Vessel Reviews, Work Boat World Features.

I was delighted recently to be informed I was considered an essential service provider as part of Hong Kong’s salvage response team and could get a priority booking for ..

March 3, 2021

REMINISCENCES | The graveyard watch

Written by Michael Grey on March 3, 2021. Posted in Dry Cargo World, Ship World Features, Tanker World, Work Boat World Features.

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 manpower to a ..

April 13, 2021

COLUMN | Don’t look back [The Boroscope]

Written by Kent Stewart on April 13, 2021. Posted in Boxship World, Salvage Operations, Ship World Features, Ship World Vessel Reviews, Work Boat World Features, Work Boat World Vessel Reviews.

A friend of mine, a pilot in Townsville, invited me to join him during an inbound pilotage of a car carrier back in the 1980s. The bridge is forward on car carriers and ..

March 16, 2021

COLUMN | Stena Group may give towing a boost [Tug Times]

Written by Alan Loynd on March 16, 2021. Posted in Boxship World, Dry Cargo World, Harbour Tugs and Operation, Ro-Pax World, Ship World Features, Ship World Vessel Reviews, Work Boat World Features.

Stena Group companies have been much in the news recently. On the ferry side, Stena Line has been boasting about the number of women they employ, whilst Stena Bulk has ..

February 24, 2021

COLUMN | Questions for the carriers [Grey Power]

Written by Michael Grey on February 24, 2021. Posted in Boxship World, Ship World Features, Work Boat World Features.

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 in the heavy ..

April 2, 2021

REMINISCENCES | The big ditch

Written by Michael Grey on April 2, 2021. Posted in Boxship World, Dry Cargo World, Salvage Operations, Ship World Features, Ship World Vessel Reviews, Tanker World, Work Boat World Features.

The recent pictures of the gigantic Evergreen containership sitting forlornly across the Suez Canal, bow and stern hard aground on the sand, with a diminutive digger ..

In Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE, public investment by petro-states is increasingly focused on squeezing out private sector businesses in oilfield services, especially ..

February 23, 2021

FEATURE | Tilawa – The strange tale of 2,364 pieces of silver

Written by Oliver Weiss on February 23, 2021. Posted in Dry Cargo World, Maritime Archaeology, Salvage Operations, Ship World Features, Work Boat World Features.

In 2012 a Brit racing driver, Ross Hyett, set up Argentum Exploration with the purpose of locating and recovering bullion from wartime wrecks. In July 2012 Argentum ..