WITH hopes high that the Ballast Water Convention will finally come into force in the next year or so, getting new equipment installed on ships in time to meet regulatory guidelines will mean plenty of work for suppliers of ballast water management systems.

LOOKING for a senior business development role, interested in locating in the Far East? Spinnaker can help. There much demand for senior sales and marketing personnel in shipmanagement recently, especially in the offshore and subsea sector.

AMENDMENTS were introduced to the 1996 Inter-Club New York Produce Exchange Agreement in September! Not thrilled by this news? Never heard of the ICA? Heard of it, but don't know what it is? Well here's a quick lesson for you.

WITH the sustainable shipping issue at the top of the maritime agenda, those of you who have not looked at what is going on as part of the Forum for the Future's Sustainable Shipping initiative should check out their website.

NEWS from Reabur.com that 34% of staff are simply too lazy to look for their dream job. In a survey, 38% of respondents were unhappy with their present job and one fifth hated it.

MOVING overseas? Don't know the language? Well the situation might not be as desperate as you think. A recent survey from Berlitz Consulting suggested that learning about the culture in the country you are going to, and what's more, understanding it, is more important than knowing the language.

WE were intrigued to read in Recruiter magazine that a new survey of 2,500 scouts found that 41% of employers surveyed said that the fact the candidate had been a scout favourably influenced their decision to employ him/her.