The ‘ramifications’ of training
In the run-up to the STCW Conference in Manila this June, India has proposed that there be mandatory space for training berths provided on all new ships. This will be one of the more heated issues to...
View ArticleClarifying the STCW issues
In June, delegates to the Revision Conference of the International Maritime Organisation on Standards of Training, Certification, and Watchkeeping will meet in Manila to take up 13 draft resolutions...
View ArticleSTCW revision must address fatigue
Full marks to Clay for his “clarifying the issues” blog, which sets out the realities which must be confronted if the Manila conference on STCW is to realise any of its aims.
View ArticleAll talk and no action
A great deal has been said, at the seemingly numberless conferences on (a) piracy, and (b) the Year of the Seafarer, that (c) there is a shortage of qualified seafarers; (d) that "criminalisation" of...
View ArticleDefining exceptional
I am flexible. You are pragmatic. He is b...... unreasonable! Every picture, it has been said, (possibly by William Blake before he went mad) depends on the identity of the artist and where he is...
View ArticleSymbols of maritime decline
Our government’s present inability to land a cargo of gasoline in a U.S.-flag vessel in icebound Nome, Alaska, symbolizes the shortage of foresight of our maritime policy makers. We are unable to...
View ArticleRest and be thankful
Who remembers the scandal of asbestos, the harm it did to health, and the billions that have been spent in compensating those who have suffered from the debilitating and fatal consequences of the...
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