Seven marvellous poems of the sea
In the profit-crazed world of shipping, who cares about poems of the sea? Not many for sure. Poetry serves no practical purpose, and it won’t fill one’s pockets. But, as English writer Robert Graves said in his 1963 lecture at the London School of...
Three IMO sins the shipping industry ignores
Who would dare criticise the International Maritime Organization (IMO)? It is a leviathan — immense, powerful and rich. To assail its actions, one would have to be as intrepid as Musashi, the legendary Japanese swordsman shown battling a whale in Utagawa...
Going gaga over old maritime photos
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. ~ William Faulkner (from ‘Requiem for a Nun’) Of late I have been enamoured with maritime photos dating back to the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is not only the long gone social milieu they depict that...
10 maverick quotes about Philippine manning
The world’s ship manning capital has such a unique, albeit impaired, culture that it inspired me to publish my second e-book, ‘Close Encounters in Maritime Manila‘, in April 2018. The following are brief excerpts from the volume. I hope this...Ads
Close Encounters in Maritime Manila
This e-book is a first-hand account of life in the world’s ship manning capital.
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