20: GREEK salaries… 3: annual pay reviews… 1.8: marine engineers… 40: HOUSING costs in Dubai…

CORPORATE manslaughter was once again on the legal agenda in recent months when Cotswold Geotechnical was fined 385,000 pounds after being found guilty following the death of a geologist when a trial pit collapsed on him…

WHO stands to gain by using the Rotterdam Rules as opposed to the other carriage options? That was the question before the panel at the London Shipping Law Centre's March seminar to discuss the issue. Hamburg, Hague-Visby – there are any number of regimes to consider…

SURROGATE mothers have seemed all the rage in recent years, but surrogate fathers? A great tale then from Germany where a sterile husband got the next door neighbour to “stand-in”…

Dry bulk handling issues is the next topic on the agenda for the London Shipping Law Centre on March 30. Loading issues, ballasting and deballasting, seaworthiness, and causation are just some of the topics on the agenda.

Navigate Events is continuing to prove that having shipping people running shipping events produces better quality, better attended and, simply more relevant conferences and seminars than some of the larger competition…

AS the disastrous piracy situation looks set to continue, the National Union of Seafarers of India is not the only body to be calling for a boycott of trade in pirate-infested waters off the African coast…

A SHORTAGE of qualified seafarers, or seafarers that have been promoted too fast for their capabilities, continues to be an issue…