Opinions & Analysis

When times are bad, you need your friends about to help you. But at the present, the shipping industry seems to be running very short of friendly supporters, when other struggling industrial sectors in many countries are having money chucked at...

There is an old joke among industry insiders that goes something like: “When your local barber starts asking you about which tanker stock to buy, you know that the easy money has already been made.”

Let’s face it: The world as we know it has ended.

It has been a tumultuous few months, with public health worries and economic uncertainty. As the COVID-19 crisis continues, it’s continuing to affect more and more industries in ways we never might have previously imagined.

“How on earth did they manage to do that?” Such might have been an appropriate reaction upon watching that spectacular Facebook record of the container ship demolishing half the cranes in a South Korean port earlier this month.

The crew change crisis that has developed with the COVID-19 pandemic will need more than just coordination of port and government authorities with shipowners and managers as there is a huge logistics issue of getting seafarers to the points of...

Late yesterday morning (March 18) Maritime Safety Queensland (MSQ) banned all commercial ships from entering ports in Queensland if the ship, or any person onboard, has been in any country outside of Australia within the last 14-days. Shipping...