Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has named Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, 44, as new Shipping minister, in a cabinet reshuffle this week. The Athens-born New Democracy MP replaces Kostis Mousouroulis, from the shipowning island of Chios, who is...
Without seafarers there would be no shipping industry and the world would be a much poorer place. It is good therefore that the IMO holds its annual Day of the Seafarer celebration, however, there is still much that can be done to make seafaring a...
The six sister vessels of the stricken MOL Comfort are to be inspected, as the first salvage vessels reach the wreck.
Soaring rates for tankers trading on the US domestic trades under the Jones Act were a hot topic at one of the panels at last week’s Marine Money conference in New York.
Outstanding achievements made by Asian shipping players were recognised at the Seatrade Asia Awards 2013 where close to 400 top shipping executives from different sectors of the global shipping community gathered to attend in Hong Kong.
The latest technical innovation causing a headache for the shipping industry is social media, and according to many its impact on shipping could be the greatest of all technical developments. Implementation required no timetable, no political...