Just a week to go to the Dry Bulk Shipping Insight event and the 2011 Annual Membership Meeting of The Maritime HR Forum. Read on below for more information on both.

Last week was that time of year again when the great and the good give Greece a break and head instead for Oslo for Nor-Shipping. A different approach this year, with the emphasis on showcasing the industry to young people, local politicians and the like in order to encourage them to engage with the industry…

The members of the Maritime HR Forum will be gathering in London in June to discuss and share best practice, pay and reward trends, incentive schemes, expat packages and how not to lose their employees to the opposition…

“Half a million? Are you mad?” Reimbursement of interview expenses can be a surprisingly contentious subject. Of course, most employers and most jobseekers are perfectly sensible and most company policies apply simple common sense…

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. A prestigious team of analysts and market players will be joining forces for…

The paddle steamer Waverley, built in 1947 for the North British Railway Company to replace her predecessor lost at Dunkirk in 1940 is the last seagoing paddle steamer in the world. And she is calling for steam qualified engineers to help out onboard…

FFAs are something that we all think are clear as mud, so we read with appreciation Moore Stephens' definition of classic or alternative accountancy terms, as found in its newsletter Bottom Line. The textbook definition of FFAs is that they “provide a means of hedging exposure to freight market risk through trading of specified time charter and voyage rates for forward positions”…

Overtonnaging has been a concern the markets for some time as the world fleet continues to expand and the glut of newbuildings needs to be absorbed…

Glassdoor, which advises people on interview techniques and the like, has compiled a list of the most bizarre questions asked at interviews last year…