Posted to Maritime Musings
(by
Dennis Bryant)
on
May 3, 2013
The barque Picton Castle is a commercial sail training vessel homeported in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and registered in the Cook Islands. It was built in Swansea, Wales in 1928 as a motorized fishing trawler and named for the local Welsh castle.
Posted to Market expectations from DNV and GL merger
(by
Joseph Fonseca)
on
January 23, 2013
The recent announcement of the merger of the two classification societies Germanischer Lloyd (GL) and Det Norske Veritas (DNV) seems to have caused an unsettling effect on shipping companies, classification societiesand others related organizations.
Posted to Far East Maritime
(by
Greg Knowler)
on
October 25, 2012
China became known as the world’s factory by offering manufacturing costs that could not be matched by the developed nations. Its wages paid to uneducated rural migrant labour were a fraction of the mostly unionized pay required in the West, and land for factories was plentiful and cheap.
Posted to Maritime Musings
(by
Dennis Bryant)
on
March 30, 2012
Starting in about 1890, the United States Navy began a rebuilding program to replace its antiquated fleet, most of which then dated from the Civil War. It handily won the naval conflicts of the Spanish-American War, but that was against a nation with an even more antiquated fleet.
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