Cold comfort on World Maritime Day
World Maritime Day 2012 will be celebrated this week (the specific date is up to individual countries) with the theme: “IMO: One hundred years after the Titanic”. The International Maritime Organisation has done a great job in raising the global standards for marine safety. Even so, we can’t get ourselves to join the celebration. Not only do we dread hearing the usual platitudes and motherhood statements. A century after the Titanic, three things leave us feeling cold and wanting to stay away from it all and just drink our daily dose of hot coffee: (more…)
