OPINION | The sticky case of Indonesia, a seized Iranian oil tanker, and legal jurisdiction
The two giant freighters floated “dark” in the open ocean not far from Indonesia. Their positioning transponders switched off, neither tanker displayed...
The two giant freighters floated “dark” in the open ocean not far from Indonesia. Their positioning transponders switched off, neither tanker displayed...
The UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said seafarers will be better protected as new rules come into force to tighten up safety for those who...
The Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA) has become the first shipping registry in the world to instigate a concentrated inspection campaign (CIC) for pilot...
A friend of mine, a pilot in Townsville, invited me to join him during an inbound pilotage of a car carrier back in the 1980s. The bridge is forward...
Despite the introduction ten years ago of regulations prohibiting the use of asbestos materials onboard ship, a significant number of existing and newbuild...
Regular readers will recall my February editorial in which I endorsed the comments of the British maritime union Nautilus on the need for “radical thinking”...
Following the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, various types of lifeboat and various ratios of them to the numbers of people on board have been mandated...
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