Unbelievably, almost exactly twenty-five years since the Estonian flagged Ro-Pax ferry Estonia sank in a Baltic storm, some members of the legal profession have ..
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There is just no hiding your most embarrassing moments, in these days of Facebook, when every man and his dog are equipped with a movie-camera. Most professional mariners ..
The history of Bourbon Corporation is one of hubris, tragedy and fall, as the company expanded from running sugar plantations in the Indian Ocean, to owning a fleet of ov ..
Offshore Accounts loves covering corruption. Corruption is the elephant in the room ..
So as I write this it is Independence Day, so we have just clicked over into the second half of the year. It’s perhaps somewhat perverse of me, then, to look back at la ..
In our Commonwealth liners, we were blue water sailors, accustomed to the odd storm and occasional monsoon, but largely unprepared for anything too extreme. Ice was somet ..
Many readers will be aware of the famous instruction in a recipe for hare soup – “first catch your hare”. The instruction is attributed either to Mrs. Glasse’s < ..
It is now more than 20 years since China enacted its proactive policy in the South China Sea (SCS). The core element of this policy remains the enforcement of Beijing’s ..
The recent drama involving the passenger ship Viking Sky is rapidly fading from the collective consciousness, and in the aftermath everyone is playing the tradit ..
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