Compulsory retirements of employees at the default retirement age is no longer be possible in the UK as of October 1st.

Only six months since the launch of the Oscar campaign we are delighted to say that we – that's WE in shipping by the way – have raised nearly 270,000 pounds as companies from all over the shipping world have contributed to raising half a million pounds for Great Ormond Street Children's hospital.

Plenty of good speeches and words of wisdom at the ICS/ISF conference in London in September, one of which our chairman was able to make shameless use of as he went off to a meeting immediately after.