This month Europe has sweltered under a heat wave, with temperatures crossing forty degrees Celsius in many parts of Spain. So too, the heat has returned to the offshore ..
Work Boat World Features
COLUMN | Did politics kill the shipping industry’s R&D fund? [Grey Power]
What was there not to like about the shipping industry’s carefully thought-out scheme for an international fund that could be used to accelerate the route to a carbon-z ..
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BOOK REVIEW | Put Not Your Trust in Princes: From Bannockburn to the Burdekin, By Sea & Of Ships and Shoes and Scotland
These two fine books should be read sequentially in the above order. Apart from being excellent personal memoirs of a seagoing life from naïve Scottish deck cadet to cyn ..
REMINISCENCES | The white dot (another shark story)
A white dot. That’s what it was. First very faint, then getting bigger and bigger. I was astonished at what it turned out to be – the white nose of a shark about two ..
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OPINION | Stemming the tide of piracy in Southeast Asia
In April, the International Chamber of Commerce published a new report on piracy and armed robbery against ships. Among 37 incidents recorded worldwide in the first three ..
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COLUMN | The cash comes back to offshore: the North Sea lives again, Canada gets drilling, rigs are revived [Offshore Accounts]
After last week’s review of the Tullow/Capricorn merger, and the news that Shell and its partners are proceeding with the Crux project to provide new offshore gas for e ..
Focus on Marine Pilotage
The pilot boats included in this this latest lineup of vessel reviews are for customers across a broad geographical range, from the US East Coast to Europe, the Middle Ea ..
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LETTERS | Another Guardian-class patrol boat for Samoa?
What on earth have the Samoans done to Australia, that warrants us giving them another Guardian Patrol boat when it is of no use to them? In 1976, Australia donated the f ..
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COLUMN | About damn time: Tullow merges with Capricorn; Siem returns to profit; Shell approves Crux FLNG project in Australia as Prelude FLNG unions act [Offshore Accounts]
Curvy, body positive American singer Lizzo’s new single “About Damn Time” has stormed to number one on the Billboard Chart in the US, and into the top ten i ..
Focus on Research and Training
This week’s lineup of reviewed vessels covers a broad range of specialties in the marine research and training fields. From China, there are a new oceanographic shi ..
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