I have become a shipping expert again, after several years where I would turn down any requests for comment because I didn't feel I was keeping up with things. Now I am keeping up with things, because these are interesting times. So here are a few pieces I've written over the last couple of weeks. Apologies that there are paywalls involved. If I could remember how to link to a pdf, I'd do that, but I can't. I was asked to find seafarers actually stuck on ships to talk to. I tried very hard,...

I've started a newsletter on Substack. It's called Rose: some rambling. I will write about something and nothing, anything and...

I wrote about my experience of taking a Personal Sea Survival course at Seascope Maritime in Liverpool, the latest in my articles for...