David Hughes

Singapore is making the right moves to roll with these changes, but who knows what other challenges will come to container shipping?

The issue often involves unscrupulous owners, shell companies, ineffective flag states and corrupt crewing agencies

IMO is trying to come up with a net-zero strategy that has a chance of being generally accepted

“EVENTS, dear boy, events,” was reportedly British prime minister Harold MacMillan’s answer to the question, posed by a journalist back in the 1960s, of what was most likely to blow a government off c...

But much of the industry remains preoccupied with the newly implemented European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, and would prefer a simple levy on bunker consumption

IT HAS certainly not been a good start to the year. We have had the near-closure of the Suez route, and the killing of seafarers trying to sail though it. 

A recent report on a collision between two relatively small ships in northern European waters should provide food for thought for anyone involved in the operation of vessels.

LAST year, a survey by ship manager Danica found that one in 20 seafarers – “roughly one on every ship” – reported having experienced bullying, while 4 per cent felt they had been discriminated agains...

IT WAS inevitable. If you keep on firing deadly weapons at people, sooner or later, you will kill them.

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