As shipping moves toward semi-autonomous and autonomous vessels Nir Ayalon, CEO and founder of Cydome, says cybersecurity needs to be at the forefront of people’s minds.
With the Master of APL England facing trial over the vessel being unseaworthy after it lost 50 containers overboard, Michael Grey questions the definition of unseaworthiness.
The wheels of justice, at least in the commercial courts, grind exceedingly slowly - most will have forgotten the casualty to the big containership CMA CGM Libra
As the year draws to a close Louise Elmes, Maritime Law and Litigation Partner at Keystone Law, examines key trends companies in the sector should plan for in 2022.
Seafarers really shouldn’t be afraid of equipment that is supposed to save them, but this is all too often the case, as news of accidents involving lifeboats filters around the seagoing workforce.
Over the last ten years, the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN) has grown from a handful of shipping companies opposed to corruption, into one of the world’s most successful private sector anti-corruption initiatives.
The International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) meets next week, and the shipping industry finds itself on a somewhat curious position.
Will retailers who have effectively become their own shipping lines remain so in the longer term was an interesting question posed by the Global Shippers Forum (GSF) recently.
Michael Grey argues that all the time spent on decarbonisation is taking away from immediate issues such as the treatment of seafarers in the pandemic.
When transport ministers, policy makers, even the general public talk about connectivity, it is airlines, railways and roads that they think of first – with ferries (indeed the whole of sea transport) mostly omitted from the conversation.
