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…
IF YOU HURRY, you may just be in time to take part in the shipping industry's biggest ever global salary survey…
WE end the year roughly 2 percent ahead of last year. No mean feat considering the tough market conditions in the first half of the year. Eagle-eyed readers will know that we've already reported a strong second half more than making up for a weak first half. We're not sure why. We put it down to sentiment. As George Orwell said in 1984: the proletariat are a fickle bunch. Quite. But if that was the second dip in our double-dip recession, then we're left feeling optimistic.
POST-TRAUMATIC stress is well-recognised nowadays. Therapy is, we understand, made available to military service personnel, although the press regularly publish stories of soldiers who've been discharged and haven't really had all the help they need. This very week a former British soldier murdered his two children and then killed himself. The recent International Chamber of Shipping conference in London highlighted the response by shipping companies to traumatic events involving crew members as an area of crew welfare that should perhaps be commanding more attention…
