Voyager Blogs

Increased voyage efficiency can’t arrive soon enough

Congestion has been a fact of life in the shipping industry for years. Neither has it always been a dirty word. For spot trading ships, a strong …

Just grin and bear it?

First the good news. The Seafarers Happiness Index, published by the Mission to Seafarers, took a move upward in the second quarter of this year …

August 4, 2022 – Voyager Blogs

The delivery of navigation charts and nautical publications to ships at sea has been subject to continuous evolution, from print to online and no…

Better technology for safer seafaring

Digitalisation is almost as close to the top of shipping industry priorities as its cousin decarbonisation. The two are inextricably linked, one …

Seafaring takes a look into the future

June 25 marks the international Day of the Seafarer, a celebration – depending on your point of view – of the contribution the marine industr…

Is the devil in the detail of seafarer internet access?

Seafarers have won the right to mandatory internet access while at sea, under an update to the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) agreed earli…

A process of continuing education

How does shipping encourage more women to join the industry, fill the skills gap and make decision-making more diverse? It starts with understand…

Can shipping join the circular economy?

In case any doubt remained, it should be clear to everyone remotely involved in shipping that the next 20 years will be nothing like the last cou…

Data, sensors and soft skills

As has regularly been observed in these pages, the next decade will be when data comes into its own as the vital differentiator between efficient…