JULIAN BRAY has managed to trump many a marathon runner and achieve iron man status. And he has raised over USD18,000 to boot…

So – not only is mobile technology damaging our businesses – it's damaging our holidays as well. Research carried out by BT discovered that a third of workers say they check their work email or voicemail whilst on holiday…

TRADEWINDS wrote at the end of August that anyone called up by a headhunter offering them a job as CFO for a liner company should probably hang up the phone – it's the poisoned chalice of the container shipping world apparently and the turnover of financial bosses has been especially high in recent times…

A recent survey conducted by Reconverce (sample size circa 25,000) found that 72% of participants wanted to receive career opportunity information on their mobile device, 63% have searched for a job on their mobile device, and 48% have applied for a job on a mobile device…

The Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) will enter into force in 2013. There was perhaps a collective sigh of relief when it recently got the final ratification necessary to bring it into force in 12 months' time, with all that that entails…

KENCHO: The Happiness plan that will change your life for good!

WE all know the damage careless online posting can do to one's career, but now Bibby tell us that obsessive use of mobile technology is damaging our businesses. They have been looking into social media and calculate that a firm with 100 staff loses over 16 working hours every day…

RAPIDLY expanding markets suffer – by definition – from skills shortages. Salaries are driven up until skills supply catches up with demand. Simple economics that! The LNG market has been expanding rapidly for quite a while now…

COULD the US really be about to repeal legislation requiring double-skinned tankers? The world was dragged down the double-hull route by the Americans following the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989…