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The year 2011 has seen the cost of nautical-related marine insurance claims return to former high levels, and new technology is doing nothing to reassure underwriters, as Denzil Stuart reports.

30th October 2011

Caution remains in hull and machinery insurance

30th October 2011

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Salvage companies and marine underwriters are keeping an eye on a new initiative that could prevent a damaged ship from sinking.

30th October 2011

Keep damaged ships afloat

30th October 2011

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The problem of Somali pirates is not going away; in fact it threatens to escalate.

1st October 2011

Log on – Piracy at sea

1st October 2011

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With the imminent Motorship Gas Fuelled Ships conference in Rotterdam, and the formal adoption of the EEDI and SEEMP by IMO’s MEPC, fuels and emissions are again in the spotlight.

16th August 2011

Fuel for the future

16th August 2011

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According to logistics organisation Shippers Voice, shipper groups believe that ‘green fuel taxes’ will not reduce emissions from ships; instead they will simply add a surcharge to the rates they charge customers.

3rd August 2011

Shippers sceptical about EEDI measures

3rd August 2011

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GPS guides just about every vessel afloat, and although the technology is accurate and reliable, it is not infallible, argues Dag Pike.

29th July 2011

GPS – good but vulnerable

29th July 2011

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Despite lower activity levels in shipping, casualty statistics remain high. Denzil Stuart investigates.

26th June 2011

High casualty levels still cause concern

26th June 2011

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Looking through the archive collection of The Motor Ship in our offices, it was interesting to note that even as far back as the 1930s it was being forecast that the earth’s…

1st May 2011

Change gathers pace – at last

1st May 2011

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Dag Pike looks at the need to maintain timetables, which can expose the disadvantages of operating slower ships, besides the well-known environmental benefits.

29th April 2011

Keeping to schedule

29th April 2011

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Next month, the shipping and marine engineering community will be travelling to Norway (after having spent a couple of days in Denmark, at our conference of course).

1st April 2011

Norway shows the way

1st April 2011

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Nor-Shipping 2011 will take place between May 24 and May 27, 2011. The organisers expect the event to be at least as well supported as the last Nor-Shipping, in 2009, which attracted…

20th March 2011

Nor-Shipping 2011: next generation shipping

20th March 2011

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I am putting this issue together following our return from Copenhagen, where we were at the very successful 33rd Motorship Propulsion and Emissions conference.

20th February 2011

Forward with technology

20th February 2011

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The November 2010 issue of The Motorship partly focuses on communications. This was a hot topic in the lead-up to the introduction of GMDSS, but has been less newsworthy over the last…

19th October 2010

Communications choice

19th October 2010

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Our staff and industry experts with the independent, authoritative view for which The Motorship is known

4th October 2010

Comment and opinion

4th October 2010

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Del Redvers and Simon Burnay of the BMT group reflect on a comprehensive energy management strategy to reduce costs and emissions.

1st October 2010

Alternative routes to greener shipping

1st October 2010

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SMM 2010 is scheduled for 7 to 10 September, at the Hamburg Fair site in Germany. The 24th International Shipbuilding Fair is expected by the organisers to exceed the very considerable size…

25th August 2010

SMM focuses on the environment

25th August 2010

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This issue (September 2010) sees us preparing for SMM. With the Hamburg-based show claimed to be bigger than ever before we have to admit that it is something of a daunting prospect…

13th August 2010

See you in Hamburg

13th August 2010

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July 2010 looks like a busy month at the IMO headquarters in London.

15th July 2010

Fuels for the future

15th July 2010

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More functions and reader-friendliness from the first of Mercator Medias new web sites

30th December 2009

Our new web site

30th December 2009

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We look back over the past year and forward to prospects for the next.

30th December 2009

A green re-birth for the industry

30th December 2009