An amazing GBP51,000 was donated to the OSCAR Campaign last Thursday during shippingâs first industry-wide trading day…

DEALING with people who you cannot stand is a fact of life, although hopefully you work with one or two people who don't make your teeth itch. Krista Powell Edwards, a managing consultant at Humanistics Solutions has come up with a few top tips for dealing with the situation…

COMBINING the two HR departments in shipping companies is becoming increasingly popular……..

AND while we're doing modern funky things……….

THE man, the legend that is marine claims guru Chris Beesley………….

CONFERENCE organised by a whole bunch of people, myself included, making it up as they went along!…….

THERE was some fighting talk at the PYNDA conference and some major concerns from the industry not least as far as Iranian sanctions were concerned. David Brummond, Senior Sanctions Advisor from the US Treasury, bravely faced the crowd to explain the US stance…

BECOME a shipowner!……….

IT is fair to say that the PYNDA conference outdid all before it during the afternoon “cake and a break”. Cakes decorated with vessel drawings were labelled up as cakesize, ULCC and VLCC (cake carriers), panamarzipan and icing breakers…