The Magnetic North
The United States has granted Royal Dutch Shell conditional approval of its plan to begin drilling exploratory wells in the Beaufort Sea, off the North Slope of Alaska, next summer.
View ArticleFerry fuel of the future
“It will never work because there is no infrastructure!” I wonder how many times these words, or their 19th century equivalents, were spoken by sailing ship owners contemplating the move into...
View ArticleOversight, assessment of risk and management: Part 2
In my last post I began looking at risk management and would like to elaborate further and see how this applies to shipping, the offshore oil industry, and particularly oil spills?
View ArticleNow wipe your feet
There are some days when you feel that the lunatics really have taken charge of the asylum. That estimable watcher of Washington Dennis Bryant notes in his excellent newsletter that the US Maritime...
View ArticleIt’s an ill wind
A trip around the lighthouse was always a popular excursion in the Victorian seaside, while coastal paddle steamers could make a decent living when the weather was not too stormy. Sea voyages to...
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