Ever since a week or two after the al Qaeda Saudi Arabian terror attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, there has been a fairly consistent boom in the ..
Commercial Mariner – Vessel Reviews
Welcome to Fishing and Aquaculture Week 2020/07
Regular readers of Baird Maritime could not fail to notice that for the past couple of years there has been a growing trend towards larger, more versatile and much more ..
Welcome to Tug and Salvage Week 2020/07
Reviewing our vessel orders and deliveries database since May 24, it is interesting to note that at least 14 per cent of new vessel orders are for tugs. Often, the orders ..
OPINION | Tuna price-fixing scandal implicates global NGOs
On Tuesday, Chris Lischewski, the driving force behind the creation of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF), received a three-year prison ..
Welcome to Naval Architecture Week!
Without naval architects the world’s ships and boats would be less safe, less economical, more expensive, more polluting and uglier. Naval architects are an essential ..
COLUMN | No news is not necessarily good news: McDermott and James Fisher and Sons [OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS]
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle features the short story Silver Blaze, about the disappearance of a famous racehorse of that name, and the murder ..
Silver Seas – New Galapagos Islands cruiser is a luxury, all-suite affair
Silversea Cruises has taken delivery of its first-ever destination-specific ship, Silver Origin, from Dutch shipyard De Hoop. With the delivery of Celebrity Flora in ..
FEATURE | Can the cruise industry be saved?
As the Covid-19 pandemic spread around the world last winter, cruise ships served as petri dishes for the new virus. Despite being hailed as a “great and important ..
Welcome to Passenger Vessel Week!
While it may be inappropriate to say so in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, tourism remains one of the world’s largest and most important industries. In many places ..
COLUMN | Unmanned naval systems poised for operational service [Naval Gazing]
Unmanned maritime systems are relatively cheap to operate, offer high endurance, with only modest manpower requirements, and have the potential to drastically reduce ..