Thank you to Ben Strong of Amver for talking to Shipping Podcasts about Amver and their involvement in the rescue efforts in Haiti. You can sign up to Amver here: www.amver.com And follow their blog here: http://amveruscg.blogspot.com And follow them on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/amver This podcast is sponsored by ShipServ

Earlier this week Fred Pearce wrote an article entitled ‘How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world’. You can read his article on the Mail Online The article was posted online on Saturday 21st November and attracted 138 comments before the Mail closed the comments section on Tuesday 24th. [...]

James Tweed of Coracle Online meets Kate Lannan of UNCITRAL and they discuss the recent signing of the Rotterdam Rules (23 September) For more background to the Rotterdam Rules, please listen to our earlier podcast The CMI (Comite Maritime International) are mentioned in the podcast: there is a wealth of information on their site.

The ICS prize-giving award ceremony took place at Trinity House in London on Sept 24. This podcast has the speeches from George Greenwood (ICS President) and Professor Costas Grammenos as well as the prize awards. ARMAC prize: Mr T Shields CLARKSONS prize: Mr D W A Przednowek JOHN GOOD & SONS prize: Mr K Roose [...]

Best Management Practices re piracy in GoA and off Somalia – Version 2 We are not publishing any podcasts this week due to holidays, but hope that this entry, from Intertanko, will be of interest to you… An updated version (Version 2 dated August 2009) of the Industry Best Management Practices (BMP) re piracy in [...]

A Coracle podcast from Maritime Executive Magazine, the business journal for Maritime Executives. You can see their articles, interviews and case studies online at www.maritime-executive.com

Vessel Defense: Firearms or no Firearms? It’s the wrong question says K&M. Proponents and opponents of arming ships against pirate attack may be asking the wrong questions suggests Michael Murrell, Chief Operations Officer for anti-piracy specialist K&M Global Security Solutions. The company recently extended its logistics support system to key points to enable its security [...]

Notes on Piracy based on comments from breakout session at Marine Money New York. To describe the scale of the problem of piracy facing the shipping industry at the moment we need look no further than the moderator of the recent Marine Money conference in New York who said that “putting a man on the [...]

A round up from the Marine Money conference held at The Pierre Hotel , New York June 2009. You can follow Marine Money via twitter

Marine Money Day 1 from The Pierre Hotel , New York To follow the latest from the conference, follow http://twitter.com/jtweed