THERE was the usual excellent turnout for the London Shipping Law Centre's Cadwallader debate to discuss whether the shipping industry and the regulators were oil and water…

FORGET Wikileaks, read what schoolchildren have been writing about in 2010…

THE long-awaited BIMCO/ISF 2010 survey on global supply and demand for merchant seafarers was officially launched last month, with the full report due to be delivered this month…

The UK Government has introduced new measures aimed at controlling the numbers of workers that can come to the UK from outside Europe. For those of you who haven't yet got your heads around what this all means, read on!

APRIL Fools' Day proved to be a bad one for five Somalis found guilty of a pirate attack on a US ship. They thought they were going for a merchant ship but managed to engage the US frigate USS Nicholas instead…

THE budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced…

AT a time when everyone should be looking forward to enjoying the Christmas festivities, we were saddened to hear of the sudden death last week of Alan Phillips, our friend and director of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers…

AN engineer was crossing a road one day, when a frog called out to him and said, “If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess” …

SPINNAKER has been crunching salary and bonus numbers for the Maritime HR Forum in recent months – a fascinating and useful bit of global salary research carried out regularly for over 40 leading shipping employers…