Dry bulk handling issues is the next topic on the agenda for the London Shipping Law Centre on March 30. Loading issues, ballasting and deballasting, seaworthiness, and causation are just some of the topics on the agenda.

Navigate Events is continuing to prove that having shipping people running shipping events produces better quality, better attended and, simply more relevant conferences and seminars than some of the larger competition…

AS the disastrous piracy situation looks set to continue, the National Union of Seafarers of India is not the only body to be calling for a boycott of trade in pirate-infested waters off the African coast…

A SHORTAGE of qualified seafarers, or seafarers that have been promoted too fast for their capabilities, continues to be an issue…

Although Wilbur Smith is generally known for his South African novels, he did write one on salvage with, naturally, a very goodlooking and charismatic salvage master who gets all the girls and salves every vessel going…