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Jim Lawrence is the proud recipient of this year’s Silver Bell Award

We are delighted to report that our very own Jim Lawrence is the proud recipient of this year’s Silver Bell Award in recognition of his outstanding leadership in the maritime community, significant commitment to merchant mariners, and engagement with issues facing the maritime industry. The Seamen’s Church Institute presented Jim with this prestigious award at […]

New MTI Network Offices

MTI Network opens representative offices in the Philippines, Cameroon and Nigeria. We are delighted to announce that new representative offices are now open for business in Manila, in Douala and in Lagos. As ever, MTI takes great care in opening offices which provide the right combination of skills with both maritime experience and knowledge of […]

Cyber Security and Social Media: ‘Watch out for anonymous accounts’

Social media can be a blessing and a curse at the same time. Staying in contact, networking, gathering and sharing information, it doesn’t matter if we are talking about Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook or Instagram, it’s mostly fun and interesting. As long as you know more or less who you are talking to. Unfortunately, there are […]

The Challenges of Cyber Contingency

As we have witnessed in recent years, a cyber-security incident that causes wide economic and commercial disruption or even operational incidents, can generate intense media attention and potential damage to a company’s reputation. Often organisations and their senior management struggle with the adequate response to a cyber-breach while in the public domain. The shipping industry […]

Cyber Threat and the Vulnerability of the Maritime Sector

There is no denying the maritime industry’s vulnerability to cyber-attack. Indeed, we have already seen a variety of key marine players under attack by assorted threats such as ransomware. A key component in any cyber defence for such attacks is having a solid plan for re-installing from back-up, thereby creating a cyber-resilient organisation. When the […]

Twenty years after Green Lily rescue

Image: BBC, Bristow Group, Shetland Coastguard, MCA. Twenty years ago, this month, the UK search and rescue services lost an outstanding character when Coastguard Winchman Bill Deacon, was killed whilst carrying out his search and rescue (SAR) helicopter duties in the Shetland Islands. The vessel ‘Green Lily’ was a relatively small (by today’s standards). She […]

Torrey Canyon and the changes in international maritime regulations

50 years ago, on March 18th 1967, the Torrey Canyon hit the Seven Stones reef in Cornwall and the world of clean up and oil spill response changed completely. The vessel was one of the first generation of supertankers, and it was heading for a refinery at Milford Haven in Wales from Kuwait. She had […]

Seafarers and the ‘Stories’ tool

It might be all a bit esoteric but the online issues and battle between the behemoth that is Facebook and other social media platforms appears to be hotting up. We’ve already seen the platform Vine bite the dirt after its USP of uploading short 6 second videos was copied by Facebook. Now Facebook and Snap […]

Shy spokesperson?

How often have we found that in a shipping crisis, our key company spokesperson has become ‘unavoidably’ detained, or is simply is nowhere to be seen? Picture the scene. There is widespread coverage of your shipping incident and everyone has pinned a lot of hope on deflecting a key influential broadcast journalist’s ire in an […]

‘Fake news’ and ‘post-truth’. What do they mean and have they any relevance to our industry?

You must have heard the phrases by now. ‘Fake news’ and ‘post- truth’. What do they mean and have they any relevance to our industry? Well, yes and no. It depends on who you read. Ignoring the salient facts has long been a staple of political speech. Every day, our politicians of every hue overstate […]

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