• COLUMN | Safety culture matters: Pemex and Perenco on the wrong side of history [Offshore Accounts]

    COLUMN | Safety culture matters: Pemex and Perenco on the wrong side of history [Offshore Accounts]

  • COLUMN | Anything goes in 2024 ship design [Grey Power]

    COLUMN | Anything goes in 2024 ship design [Grey Power]

  • COLUMN | Perenco’s shame and Gabon’s lax standards: a fatal combination [Offshore Accounts]

    COLUMN | Perenco’s shame and Gabon’s lax standards: a fatal combination [Offshore Accounts]

  • REMINISCENCES | The lessons of “Supership” half a century on

    REMINISCENCES | The lessons of “Supership” half a century on

  • OPINION | The Red Sea crisis, food insecurity and conflict

    OPINION | The Red Sea crisis, food insecurity and conflict

  • COLUMN | Safety culture matters: Pemex and Perenco on the wrong side of history [Offshore Accounts]
  • COLUMN | Anything goes in 2024 ship design [Grey Power]
  • COLUMN | Perenco’s shame and Gabon’s lax standards: a fatal combination [Offshore Accounts]
  • REMINISCENCES | The lessons of “Supership” half a century on
  • OPINION | The Red Sea crisis, food insecurity and conflict
COLUMN | Safety culture matters: Pemex and Perenco on the wrong side of history [Offshore Accounts]

COLUMN | Safety culture matters: Pemex and Perenco on the wrong side of history [Offshore Accounts]

By Hieronymus Bosch

Offshore is one of the industries with the biggest risk profiles in the world. When bad things happen in offshore, people die, often there are explosions and sinkings, fires and oil spills, and the environment can be badly polluted, killing seabirds, fish, dolphins and coral, and inflicting billions of dollars of losses on ..

COLUMN | Anything goes in 2024 ship design [Grey Power]

COLUMN | Anything goes in 2024 ship design [Grey Power]

By Michael Grey

People of my age were brought up to believe that the design of a ship was a sort of necessary compromise between the overall dimensions, speed and consumption, cargo capacity, seakeeping abilities, and, as a secondary afterthought (seafarers believed), habitability.

LETTERS | Baltimore bridge collapse could have been avoided

LETTERS | Baltimore bridge collapse could have been avoided

By Baird Maritime

The recent bridge collapse incident in Baltimore in the US state of Maryland was a tragedy that I believe could and should have been avoided.

COLUMN | Perenco’s shame and Gabon’s lax standards: a fatal combination [Offshore Accounts]

COLUMN | Perenco’s shame and Gabon’s lax standards: a fatal combination [Offshore Accounts]

By Hieronymus Bosch

In an industry is awash with cash and record profits, it is tragic to see five people confirmed dead in an accident on a Perenco platform offshore Gabon, and one other worker still missing, presumed also killed, as per the most recent update.

REMINISCENCES | The lessons of “Supership” half a century on

REMINISCENCES | The lessons of “Supership” half a century on

By Michael Grey

Fifty years ago, the shipping “establishment” was plunged into angst and indignation by the publication of a book that opened up many of the mysteries of the modern maritime industry to critical public scrutiny.

BOOK REVIEW | BP Shipping Pictorial: The Golden Years 1945-1975

BOOK REVIEW | BP Shipping Pictorial: The Golden Years 1945-1975

By Neil Baird

Don’t be fooled by the word “pictorial” in its title. While it does include some first-rate pictures, this book is much more than that.

Focus on Fishing and Aquaculture

Focus on Fishing and Aquaculture

Baird Maritime once more highlights the ever important fishing and aquaculture sector by reviewing newbuild vessels entering service around the world.