Voyager News

Articles and features discussing the latest news and trends affecting the maritime industry as well as latest updates from Voyager Worldwide

An unquiet summer for shipping

Summer is usually a quiet time for shipping but with both bulker and tanker markets on upward trends it looked like the good times would conti…

September 4, 2015 – Voyager News

Tired of London? Not if it’s International Shipping Week

The second London International Shipping week comes to the capital from 7-11 September, featuring a wealth of meetings, seminars, conferences …

August 6, 2015 – Voyager News

Training truths, from the top down

“There’s an implicit assumption in many cases that training is the answer. I have always questioned that assumption,” says Simon Pressly…

July 7, 2015 – Voyager News

Paper, data and more on ECDIS

As the industry gathered for Nor-Shipping, there was more news of disruptive technology and big data developments, the alarming effects of pir…

June 29, 2015 – Voyager News

Is e-Navigation still on course?

As a statement of intent, the definition of e-Navigation as ‘the harmonised collection, integration, exchange, presentation and analysis of …

June 26, 2015 – Voyager News

More rules, regulations and rumblings

Spring is in the air but for parts of the shipping industry, winter is clinging on. As the conference circuit moved from snowy Connecticut to …

May 1, 2015 – Voyager News

Tweet in haste, repent at leisure

In the official programme of the Connecticut Maritime Association’s annual conference, the day doesn’t end at the close of business hours,…

April 13, 2015 – Voyager News

Skills, seafarers and superintendents

Given the changes that have taken place in shipping since 2008, there is no reason to suppose that the management of its human resources would…

March 23, 2015 – Voyager News

Can’t comply – won’t comply?

Since January 1 this year, ships operating in the Baltic and North Sea Sulphur Emission Control Areas (SECAs) have been required to burn fuel …

March 5, 2015 – Voyager News