IMAGINE. It's the morning after a big night out on the town. You're at home. You're in bed. You're wondering whether you'll get away with calling in sick. The phone goes and it's your employer asking what you did last night with over USD500m of its money…

Take the Northern Sea Route, that's how…

FAIR play to the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers! Not only were they farsighted enough to appoint Spinnaker to recruit their new Chief Executive a year ago, they also chose the right man for the job…

UNIONS say that salaries in the UK have not kept pace with economic growth in the last 30 years…

PORNOGRAPHY takes many forms. There seems plenty to go round in the offshore industry. Take a trip to Google Images and look up the “Far Solitaire”, the “Seven Viking”, the “Bourbon Orca” or even just “ship of the year”…

ABERDEEN will lose its place as a leading oil & gas centre if it cannot recruit 120,000 skilled workers over the next 10 years, according to a report by PwC. Almost half the local relevant workforce is aged over 45, PwC says. Oil & Gas UK recently highlighted a fall in the number of 35-49 year olds working offshore in the North Sea. It will be a massive task simply replacing those who will leave in coming years…

PLYMOUTH University honoured Spinnaker's Chairman, Phil Parry, with an Honorary Doctorate of Management in September for his outstanding contribution to the University, to the development of students and graduates as well as to the international shipping business…

THE OSCAR Campaign, raising money from shipping for children's hospital Great Ormond Street has hit its GBP500,000 target thanks to an additional anonymous donation…