Use of new technology in the bunker business, such as mass flow meters has been a source of some debate in recent times, with some gloom-and-doom merchants predicting that this would prove to be the end of the independent bunker surveyor as we know it. Not so, we gather from FOBAS's Douglas Raitt…
Another good book that came our way recently is Edward Stourton's Diary of a Dog Walker…
IT'S that time of year again, when many HR departments turn their minds to the pay review budget. Everyone wants to know what everyone else is going to do…
SPINNAKER veteran, Michele Hawkins, has been appointed as Director of Spinnaker's HR Consulting Services business…
MANY of us older folk struggle with understanding our younger colleagues nowadays. Of course, we were taught to respect our superiors and that if we put in long hours and made sacrifices the rewards would come. Our good friend Karina Albers has become something of an expert and sought-after speaker and trainer on Generation Y…
SHIPPING is of course a superb source of material for a novel. At least that's what those of us in shipping think! As if to prove it, maritime PR guru and former mariner, John Guy of Merlin Corporate Communications, has recently published his first novel…
ISN'T IT THE RULE OF THUMB that a bubble is about to burst when it hits the mainstream conscience? If you're reading about it in the newspapers, you're too late to invest. That sort of thing…
THE crew of the Iceberg1 were held captive in Somalia for almost three years. Now freed after a two week siege, they are home and trying to rebuild their lives. Has their story taught us anything…?
IF you think your children are talented or gifted, forget it. In fact, by praising your children's intelligence you could be doing them more harm than good…
