After months of relative gloom, I detect signs of improvement for the towage and salvage industry. My dejection started to lift when I saw the Allianz Safety and Shipping ..
Ship World Features
FEATURE | Containerships overtake crude oil tankers as most scrubber-fitted sector
Containerships with a collective cargo carrying capacity of 5.3 million TEUs are now fitted with an exhaust gas cleaning system (scrubber) to remove sulphur oxides (SOx) ..
REMINISCENCES | Bad things come in threes
“Disasters are like buses,” says an old saying – “When you don’t want them, they come in threes.” It was an incident-packed couple of weeks on ..
https://www.bairdmaritime.com/ship-world/dry-cargo-world/reminiscences-bad-things-come-in-threes/
FEATURE | Ship orderbook shrinks to 17-year low as Covid-19 slows contracting
The total orderbook for dry bulk, container and tanker ships has reached its lowest point in 17 years as Covid-19 has massively slowed contracting (-50 per cent) while ..
REMINISCENCES | When it all went pear-shaped
When did the tarnish first appear on the “golden age” of shipping in which we were accused of living, all those years ago? When did the power of the ..
https://www.bairdmaritime.com/ship-world/dry-cargo-world/reminiscences-when-it-all-went-pear-shaped/
COLUMN | Lash up and stow [Grey Power]
It appeared, at first glance, to be an ancient artefact, something that demanded the attention of skilled archaeologists, with their carbon dating machinery, after some ..
https://www.bairdmaritime.com/ship-world/boxship-world/column-lash-up-and-stow-grey-power/
COLUMN | An invisible workforce [Grey Power]
This is being written on the “International Day of the Seafarer”, June 25, which, if you consider the way that society is currently treating this essential workforce, ..
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 ..
BOOK REVIEW | Ship – 5,000 Years of Maritime Adventure
A big, thick, glossy and beautifully illustrated book in the usual DK (Dorling Kindersley) mould, this offers an excellent overview of almost five millennia of maritime ..
COLUMN | In praise of a fixed mindset [Tug Times]
A recent short article in Seaways, the journal of the Nautical Institute, sang the praises of having a positive attitude towards change. The author, Tom Feakins MNI, ..