The Audit Scheme – an IMO success story
As I was sitting in the back of the main conference room at IMO two weeks ago, a fellow delegate leaned over and said; “Every so often, something happens here that is really important.”
View ArticleAll talk and no action
A great deal has been said, at the seemingly numberless conferences on (a) piracy, and (b) the Year of the Seafarer, that (c) there is a shortage of qualified seafarers; (d) that "criminalisation" of...
View ArticleThe ultimate obligation of a mariner
It is described as one of “the most fundamental duties of the mariner – the moral and legal obligation to go to the aid of those in peril on the sea.” Surely no decent person would even begin to argue...
View ArticleWatch your weight!
There is a certain category of shipper, I’m told, who is so dim (or so dishonest) that when a container is delivered to him for loading, will stuff the thing with cargo until the doors will barely shut.
View ArticleThe Titanic and Evacuation, Survival and Rescue
The TITANIC, as fitted out, proved deficient in at least one important item: lifeboats.
View ArticleDeath off Cebu
There is an awful inevitability about the sinking off Cebu with heavy loss of life of the Philippine domestic ferry St Thomas of Aquinas, after a collision with a cargo vessel. Both ships were 41 years...
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