LAYUPS, more layups and still more layups have been the talking point since shipping began to feel the pinch following the September 2008 crisis…

Spinnaker is very proud to say that we have been exclusively appointed to handle the recruitment of the next Managing Director of independent tanker ownersâ organisation INTERTANKO…

Reponses are still coming in from our joint salary survey with the International Marine Purchasing Association. If you want to know how your pay measures up against other purchasing staff around the world and how youâre getting on in the great salary race, complete the survey and weâll send you the full results…

AS the Posidonia shipping event draws ever closer and participants prepare to put their livers under maximum strain, we gather the trade show looks like being even more packed out than usual…

GOOD news for those trainee lawyers whose start dates at Eversheds were deferred last year due to the economic conditions…

ARE women good leaders? That was the question debated at the Women's International Shipping and Trading Association on Tuesday evening at law firm Reed Smith's headquarters…

THE latest WISTA event was very timely, coinciding as it did with the 100th anniversary of Women's International Day…

MOST of us can't remember what we were doing when Generation Y first burst onto the planet, if that's the right way of putting it, in 1978. Maybe you were holed up with a bottle of Southern Comfort in someone's bedsit, maybe you were working your fingers to the bone trying to pay for your studies, or both…

IF Generation Y is all about having an entitlement mentality, for their part employers who want to know if they are worth it, can join the Maritime HR Forum to find out…