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 Global Maritime Analysis with Joseph Keefe
(by
Joseph Keefe)
on
September 1, 2010
Responding directly to our August 10th article entitled, “STCW Compliance: will we or won’t we,” the U.S. Coast Guard’s Director of National and International Standards has affirmed the U.S. position on STCW compliance, especially as it relates…
Posted to FUSI to agitate for seamen’s wage revision
(by
Joseph Fonseca)
on
July 19, 2010
With negotiations on their charter of demands in a deadlock the Forward Seamen’s Union of India (FSUI) which claims having majority representation of seamen among the two seafarers’ unions has threatened to agitate or even strike work. A charter of demands had been submitted for 2010 – 2012.
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