• Murdoch calls for overhaul to put lid on human error | 20 September 2007

  A call for a radical revision of the International Safety Management Code has come from one of the leading loss...

• Stirring the melting pot | 20 September 2007

  Martin Frobisher and Henry Hudson, eat your hearts out. The northwest passage – the direct sea route from the Atlantic...

• Woes over Iraq's port plans | 20 September 2007

  Four years after the US-led invasion, Iraq's ports are just about functioning. But it is fair to say that they...

• `Laws have left hull market leaderless' | 20 September 2007

  The hull insurance market has been suffering for a lack of leadership for a decade according to IUMI executive committee...

• A novel way to contemplate a wealth of words | 13 September 2007

  Comparing brokers and underwriters with the authors and publishers of novels, draws some interesting parallels between the great writers of...

• Breaking new ground for expansion | 13 September 2007

  On September 3, with several world leaders in attendance and thousands of onlookers, the Panama Canal broke ground on Paraiso...

• Panama's boomtime begins | 13 September 2007

  It is impossible to separate the history of the Panama Canal from that of Panama. The most important dates...

• The sunshine and the spin | 13 September 2007

  Welcome to Queensland, booming one day, spinning the next. There's an awful lot happening in the sleepy ol' banana...

• One day shots will ring out | 06 September 2007

  Just as the city of Sydney went into lockdown mode this week ahead of the regional summit, 200 km away...

• Size still matters for giants of the container trade | 06 September 2007

  Superficially at least, liner shipping appears to be going through a period of relative stability, with few significant changes in...

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