Forget gender fluidity.... if I can self-identify as a smooth lines & sleek panamax oil tanker.... my life will be a happier place.... Now about that workplace inclusion policy... Already see Propeller Club LPL next themed meet-up.. 😃 😀 😄 😁 🤣 😂 😃 😀

My cousin's on the trawler caught a shoal of Tuna in the mid-80 off Sceirde Rocks in Carna. The cousin knowing a)my mother spoke french b)we had a phone in the house &c) knew they could commandeer Daddy's car brokered a huge deal &the catch was flown from Shannon Airport to Japan

European Maritime Finance hires new executives as it strikes out into Stockholm

#shipping

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IMO condemns “illegal, unjustifiable” attacks on ships in #RedSea .
IMO Member States call for an immediate end to ongoing attacks on ships and seafarers transiting through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
Read all about it here: tinyurl.com/4zcptjp8

Booming May rates mask the looming capacity bomb

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Stolt-Nielsen to pay MSC US$290 million to settle MSC Flaminia claim

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Exactly 3 months ago I started this newsletter. I'm now exactly FOUR subscribers away from hitting the 2,000 mark.

All because I talk about the minutiae of shipping law!

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Suspected Somali pirate attack after ship boarded in Indian Ocean

#shipping

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I sat in a meeting the other day and was told by a senior staffer that the #Houthi attacks were not having an impact on commercial shipping, particularly inflation.

Yet the evidence points to the contrary.

'Tá na Francaigh teach ar saille deir an sean bhean bocht.... ' every four year old in National School sang that! Hope its not another Killala!

Container Shipping Industry Bounces Back with $5.4 Billion Profit in Q1 2024 gcaptain.com/container-ship…

Our May edition of Seapost is out now!
Learn about our #SeaVets Appeal, #NationalFishingRemembranceDay , FishingAnimateur's Fishing News Award, our webinar with Nautical Institute on #WomenSafety , our upcoming EDI workshops, #24PeaksChallenge , and much more 👇 theseafarerscharity.org/news/seapost-m…

Is there some sort of strange astralogical phenomenon happening over Ireland, yesterday Irish Lights boss job.... and now this Dublin Port Company #Pilot IIMM NMCI linkedin.com/jobs/view/3933…

Jacqui Hurst found that having worked in Sydney Harbour for many years, coupled with her ship- handling experience in the Navy, gave her a great start as a #MarinePilot .

Read her story, a part of Pilot Diaries, on page 18: maritimesheeo.com/magazines/
#WomenInMaritime #MaritimeSheEO

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Do you have a view about shore leave? The ITF Seafarers' Trust are asking #seafarers to complete their online #ShoreLeaveSurvey to help them understand the current issues about getting ashore.

Sliabh Liag Cliffs emerging from the clouds.
County Donegal, Ireland.

And here was me thinking they both really need to up their game in terms of glasses frames...
Should have gone to specsavers Holly Birkett

For clarification....when Brian Kerr uses the term 'High Press' apparently it's a football/soccer term and NOT an aspirational wanniebe middle class utility room version of a hot press where the hot water tank on stilts with shelving above it... Jefe de Máquinas Damien McCallig

I don't get to vote in the general election, but I do have to live with whoever you elect. No pressure.

Lots of people asking me where I was when Sunak announced the election. I was inside, because it was raining. Only an idiot would have gone out in that... #GeneralElection