It was in 1999 that I attended the Lloyd's List annual awards in the Painted Hall at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich. I was there to collect the Youth and Training Award from William O'Neil, the then head of IMO, for a presentation I had written on seafarer development with my employer Reederei “NORD” Klaus E. Oldendorff of Limassol, Cyprus, where I was the General Manager…

Pension experts last month said that final-salary pension schemes were “finished” after three big firms moved to reduce members' benefits…

Here's a novel way to measure your command of a particular language

We're all economists now. That, along with a growing interest in religion and social responsibility seems to be one of the few benefits of the recession. Now, the only topic of conversation in bars and pubs the world over is not your local version of the TV show Big Brother in which a bunch of morons live in a house together until the blessed day when the last one emerges victorious into a world of cheap celebrity

ROMAN Abramovich is not a name most people associate with shipping. But with a fleet of superyachts the size of many commercial shipping fleets, he's no dinghy sailor. A name you may know though is Jonathan Holloway, the man who's been running Mr Abramovich's fleet since 2005.

YOU TUBE's most popular video is a Madonna tribute to Michael Jackson. If you´re getting a little tired of hearing “I'm gonna this” and “I'm gonna that”, have no fear, for the International Shipping Federation has launched its own You Tube blockbuster, grippingly named “Careers in International Shipping”

We'd like to congratulate Jerry Westmore on his recent appointment as a Director of the West of England P&I Club's management arm. From 1st September, Jerry will be responsible for business and product development at the Club

LAST month we published an article about the five big economic crashes in history. Roger Holt of Knightsmart Ltd has written in to tell us that we forgot about the South Sea Bubble (precursor of the Bubble Act and dotcom “bubble”) of the 1720's

RVI is a simple concept and one anyone who's leased a car should be familiar with. In short, it's insurance against the future value of something falling below a certain level. Sound good? You bet. Imagine if all those sub-prime mortgages had been backed by RVI policies…