There is not a lot of maritime news in the mainstream media. I went to the funeral of the last shipping correspondent who worked for a daily broadsheet...
There’s no better way to sell newspapers to an unsuspecting public than to instill a bit of fear and panic into their lives. Yet the world’s press hasn’t...
We are only months away from an event which will not only change world shipping forever but possibly the world’s economy as well. On January 1, 2020,...
After a couple of good years in 2016 and 2017, 2018 saw a significant increase in ferry fatalities worldwide. From 549 “known” fatalities in 2016, the...
[caption id="attachment_67751" align="alignnone" width=""]2nd Engineer Miss Victoria Drummond, MBE, practising shooting with the aid of a model enemy...
More than half a century ago, with the ship alongside in Brooklyn, I witnessed a confrontation between a uniformed official, packing a side arm, and...
We are terribly hung up on the need for “diversity” these days, with every government department in most developed countries ramming its importance...
The IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) to uphold previously agreed sector-specific energy efficiency design index (EEDI) targets for...
The following is Intercargo’s Chairman John Platsidakis’ speech at the annual reception dinner held at the Trinity House on Monday, October 1, 2018.
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