I sometimes wish that I had been good enough at maths to have studied naval architecture so as to design all manner of wonderful ships and boats. As I wasn’t, however, ..
During the heyday of the former Soviet Union, shipyards were scattered all over the various socialist republics. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia lost acces ..
In America, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently published their Safer Seas Digest 2020, a record of the 42 major incidents they investigated during t ..
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, as one daft occurr ..
In 1976, Offshore Marine’s 699GT Scotian Shore had spent over a year on charter to various companies around the Red Sea and South West Indian Ocean. Early in July t ..
The author is a Trieste-born, Sydney-educated and globally “careered” ship broker and financier who has retired to the Algarve. An interesting background to an intere ..
During the heyday of the former Soviet Union, shipyards were scattered all over the various socialist republics. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia lost acces ..
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. We have a logistics hu ..
This seems to be the last of the series of Clarkson’s register books to be reviewed here in 2021. Last, that is, but not least. It is also the thinnest of the registers ..
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