Tugs fascinate me. In the more than fifty years I have been connected with the maritime business they have been practically continually launched and, most importantly, ..
Global economic activity continues to suffer as the coronavirus runs rampant and manufacturing PMI readings for April indicate a massive weakening of global ..
One winter night in 1889, the sleek new P&O mail steamer Britannia was making her way up the east coast of Australia, at a very respectable 15 knots, when the mate on ..
It surely won’t last forever, but the scars from this contagion upon the maritime world seem likely to persist. They don’t like to admit that their forecasts ..
Converted very large ore carriers (VLOC) are increasingly becoming a thing of the past with the long-term freight contracts coming to an end as newer and more reliable ..
The Netherlands’ Next Generation Shipyards (NG Shipyards) has delivered an aluminium, high-speed pilot tender to the Dutch Pilot Association (Nederlands Loodswezen). ..
Over the past two years, the container shipping industry has faced several challenges, many of which were felt on the Far East to US West Coast (USWC) route. This route ..
It is 30 years since the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster hastened the introduction of the ISM Code, which was adopted in 1993 by resolution A.741(18) at the IMO and ..
Members of OPEC and allies (OPEC+), agreed to a historic production cut of 9.7 million barrels of crude oil per day (m/bpd) to reduce the massive production overhang and ..
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