By Michael Grey* The doorbell rang just as I had taken a huge bite of my lunchtime sandwich. I opened the door to find a

By Michael Grey* A ship which can charitably be thought of in the autumn of her days. A cargo known to be problematical and with

By Michael Grey* Without delving too deep into any debates about gender, some of us are better than others at “multi-tasking”. But the arrival of

By Michael Grey* There is an open season on merchant mariners at present, and not in a nice way, with the warring parties around the

By Michael Grey* On the occasion of last month’s “Day of the Seafarer”, I wonder how many of them felt properly appreciated. As members of

By Michael Grey* As this is being written, and if nothing more untoward occurs, the little expedition ship Hondius is due to arrive at Rotterdam

By Michael Grey* “Hormuz commanded the traffic along the shores of the Indian Ocean, linking what are now Oman and Pakistan, as well as the

By Michael Grey* It was in the 1950s, during an earlier Middle East crisis, that the wife of a British Prime Minister complained that the

By Michael Grey* You would like to hope that all sorts of useful lessons are being learned from the current conflict in the Middle East,

By Michael Grey* There can be few who were even remotely surprised at the guilty verdict and six-year jail sentence for the master of the

By Michael Grey* A nuclear reactor, I can recall my father, who was a naval engineer, explaining, was just “an advanced form of kettle” and

By Michael Grey* “Is it legal?” This was a question asked by a friend when we learned of the news that President Trump’s agile forces

By Michael Grey* There is not a great deal to cheer about as we stumble, haltingly, into the uncertainty of 2026. True, the major carriers

By Michael Grey* At a certain time in one’s life, you begin to appreciate a good obituary. Not necessarily of a life well lived, as

By Michael Grey* As tens of thousands of weary delegates stagger off their righteously offset intercontinental flights, leaving the inhabitants of Belem to clear up

By John Gruetzner* Canada needs to act quickly to protect the viability of its commodity export industries. For the cost of one submarine, the Carney

By Yoan Marier*   A threat without clear answers The numbers speak for themselves. In the past decade, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB)

By Michael Grey* When something goes badly wrong, it is human nature to attempt to deflect the blame and to cite extenuating circumstances to explain

By Michael Grey* It must be summer, when there is the annual alarm in the UK about the potential catastrophe from the detonation of 1400

By Michael Grey* As a story in May in the general press, it all seemed a bit of a laugh. The deep-sleeping Norwegian in his