By Michael Grey* There probably will not be that many people around who can recall the summer of 1984, when there was an important conference in Geneva to consider the problems of flags of convenience (FOC), or open registers, as we are now enjoined to call them. The meeting, held in the lofty halls of …
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By Michael Grey* Strategies that contribute to the saving of the planet ought to be cheered to the rafters, but I confess that when I read about the pedestrian pace on passage of some modern ships, it was with rather mixed emotions. According to those knowledgeable folk in BIMCO, the speed of containerships and bulk …
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Par Michael Grey* Il y a eu des moments excitants dans le Grand Nord en septembre. Pour commencer, les passagers à bord du petit navire de croisière Ocean Explorer, se rapprochant des glaciers de la côte nord-est du Groenland, ont découvert qu’ils étaient incapables de se déplacer après que leur navire s’est échoué dans le …
By Michael Grey* It represents one of the “least sustainable ways of going on holiday”, whimpered some “expert” of an unidentified discipline (probably either a climate scientist or a freelance consultant specialising in the promotion of mandatory misery). In case you haven’t guessed, it is, of course, cruising and the peak of the season in …
By Michael Grey* You might think that insurers would have been more vocal about the risks they are taking on with bigger car carriers carrying apparently ever more “problematic” (here is my chance to employ a fashionable word) cargoes which cause a lot of grief. It took five days to extinguish the inferno which recently …
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By Michael Grey* I had just finished re-reading an old biography of Edward Wilson; doctor, scientist, naturalist, artist and Antarctic explorer, who died with Captain Scott and fellow members of the south polar party, in March 1912. Even across all these years, it is impossible to remain unmoved, reading his final letter to his wife, …
Québec – Groupe Océan, entreprise bien implantée dans le secteur maritime québécois et canadien, lance officiellement sa campagne de financement RESPIRE. Les fonds amassés seront remis directement à la Fondation du CHU de Québec afin de renouveler le parc de respirateurs de soins critiques néonataux du Centre mère-enfant Soleil du CHU de Québec-Université Laval dont …
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Harald Solberg* To supercharge the green shift, we need a clear zero-emissions target by 2050, a market-based levy on CO2 emissions and an improved set of efficiency measures, and as our industry’s global regulator the IMO is the body to do it – and fast. We no longer have the luxury of time. In …
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Michael Grey* When I was at sea, or afterwards, in shore-side employment, nobody ever asked me whether I was happy. If this unexpected inquiry had been made, I would have been instantly suspicious, anticipating that this was a preliminary to some unwanted bad news. It probably was inculcated very early on – during my first …
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Par Michael Grey* Nous avons plus que jamais besoin de l’industrie du transport maritime, elle est essentielle à la vie moderne, alors pourquoi tant d’intérêts différents passent leurs journées à la bousculer? C’est une question qui m’est venue à l’esprit en lisant le dernier projet de lignes directrices sur les mesures visant à réduire l’impact …
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