SPINNAKER OPENING HOURS
February 7, 2012
SPINNAKER'S phone lines are open from 7am to 6pm GMT.
COSTA LOTTA MONEY
February 7, 2012
NOBODY in the shipping industry wants to be reporting on a tragedy like that which overtook the Costa Concordia on Friday the 13th and it is sad irony that only two days previously a Maritime London seminar on the salvage issues relating to large containerships warned that shipping would sooner or later face its Deepwater Horizon moment…
TITANIC EFFORTS
February 7, 2012
THE lessons learned from the Titanic – enshrined notably in the Safety of Life at Sea Convention – form the theme for World Maritime Day this year, and sadly the Costa Concordia has proved a sad reminder of what can go wrong.
EVERYBODY HURTS
February 7, 2012
AT the height of their musical powers, R.E.M. wrote some of the loveliest songs in rock music. In 'Everybody Hurts' the singer gives comfort to some poor soul who's life isn't going too well. The lyrics of that song spring to mind when thinking about the tough times being endured by our friends in Greece…
GREEK LOVE
February 7, 2012
NO shouting matches this year at the Piraeus Marine Club's annual P&I seminar, admirably organised by Evmar Marine Service's Maria Prevezanou. Instead, a good deal of sobre consensus in light of current news. Casualty management was already on the agenda, the MV Rena having seen to that.
P&I PARTICIPANTS DONATE 20,000 EUROS
February 7, 2012
NOW, if you think we're biased in our love of all things P&I, you'd be right. Since Spinnaker was established in 1997, P&I recruitment has been a core part of what we do. Our professional services team have the insurance and legal industry to thank for their very existence no less!
OSCAR HITS GBP 320,000
February 7, 2012
SHIPPING'S OSCAR campaign for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children received a further boost due to the generosity of the London Tanker Operations Party last month at which a rumoured 900 shipping bods gathered at the HQ of the Honourable Artillery Company to pretend that the tanker market was still in good shape.
BULLY BOSSES
February 7, 2012
HERE at Spinnaker we always ask job seekers what their motivation is for making a move and we usually find, as do countless surveys, that money is not the most important factor in deciding to change jobs. Therefore, it comes as no surprise to read in The Recruiter that working for a bad boss is a major motivator for changing jobs.
EXPAT ALLOWANCES
February 7, 2012
WHILE it needs to be said that not all ex-pats are getting housing allowances these days, and a lot of companies have been phasing them out, they remain common in the Middle East, far more so than in, say, Singapore.
