WELL not quite! For a great many years, London, which still claims to be the world's leading shipping centre, has failed to compete with Athens' Posidonia, Oslo's Nor-Shipping and Stamford's CMA. This year, London throws down the gauntlet and is attempting to do its own thing…
TWENTY two years ago 5 men and a dog gathered together in a London pub to lament the fact that nobody ever throws parties for operations and post-fixture people. Fast forward to 2013 and the London Tanker Operations party (LTOPS) has done its founders proud…
TALKING of government, the UK Shipping Minister attended WISTA's formal ceremony to honour Katharina Stanzel as WISTA's global Personality of the Year at the IMO in January. We wrote about Kathi's well-deserved award last month so for now here are some pics of the Award Ceremony…
THE ALPHABET soup of maritime organisations, a phrase coined by Spinnaker's former Chairman Michael Grey, aptly describes the rather large number of organisations who represent (or claim to represent) various sectors of our industry…
This year has started as last year finished …busy! Market predictions may not be for a rapid recovery but that isn't stopping many in shipping investing in the future. As The Economist said in 2011 “In the new world of work, unemployment is high yet skilled and talented people are in short supply.”
SHIPPING folk were a generous bunch in 2012, especially when it came to donating to the OSCAR Campaign and growing caterpillars on their faces…
In spite of all the ups and downs currently going on in the shipping industry, it is encouraging to read that a new survey by Antal International suggests that while recruitment levels within the United Arab Emirates are lower than predicted they are still relatively strong. Antal asked employers whether they were currently recruiting or letting staff go at a managerial and professional level and whether they intended to do so over the coming quarter…
SPINNAKER are delighted to have placed former BP and Glencore man Mike Powell as global head of operations at Maersk Tankers…
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…
