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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Mark Clark was in the eye of a media storm when the boxship beached, shedding its load on the Devon coast. Now as director of crisis management group MTI Network, he reflects on the drama Ten years ago this week, the containership MSC Napoli sent a distress signal from the English Channel during a severe […]

Yep, it’s 2017. Anyone approaching their second year in College would have missed out on partying like it was 1999 as they would have still been in their babygros. It really is quite scary how quickly time passes. This army of walking, talking hipsters commonly grouped together as Millennials have grown up in a whirl […]

当媒体危机团队采取行动处理发生在其他地区的航运事故时，有一件你或许从不会想到但会对公司运作产生影响的事情，那就是除了悉心维护船队的正常作业之外，整个IT系统因电力故障而关闭所带来的问题。