Another busy month in which the prospect of some kind of automation in ship control appeared to move ominously nearer, though somewhat c…

Ship managers are just like politicians. Whatever question you ask them, you get the answer they want you to hear. They are hardly alone in th…

A combination of formal and tacit knowledge can produce better results in the shipping industry, writes Torger Reve I grew up in Farsund…

October was a busy month and as the summer drew to a close, regulatory news took centre stage with the MLC, energy efficiency and Ballas…

As more than one industry commentator has observed in recent weeks, we live not just in interesting times but distinctly strange ones. Shippin…

Shipping and what could be called the ‘real world’ only rarely come into the same orbit at the same time. But this alignment appears to be…

Martin Stopford is right. Or at least, when he said recently that shipping needs a Steve Jobs, perhaps what he really meant is that the indust…

In this month’s round-up there are more warnings about the slow pace of ECDIS adoption, a boost for counter-piracy operations, an opportunit…

We’ve been scanning the airwaves and the newswires over the summer to bring you the latest news from the worlds of technology and communicat…