I was recently weeding out my bookcase to make room for my more recent acquisitions and came across this rather dog-eared copy of the BP World-Wide Marine Distance Tables and thought I’d share this especially for the youthful members of this industry who maybe never considered that distance tables were at one time in paper […]
What can we learn about negotiating from the Brexit Trade Deal? Setting aside politics (this is a ‘No Politics’ Blog) I have been fascinated by the negotiation of Britain’s exit from Europe. A lot of it took place in the public domain and a some of it behind closed doors and I am very much […]
HubSE are delighted to have been involved in this initiative by Energy LEAP to assist in the automation of EU Barge demurrage. This first draft of a standard data exchange is available and Energy LEAP are inviting feedback from the industry. HubSE has been close to the EU Barge industry and have been pioneering the […]
In January 2011 there were 11,092 tankers in the world merchant fleet (Note 1) and 1,350 tank barges operating in European Inland Waterways (Note 2) but how many voyages do they make each year? That was the question Hub Software Engineering www.hubse.com was trying to answer a month or so back when we were updating […]
In the January edition of the Asdem newsletter I wrote an article about the importance of keeping up-to-date with court cases and developments in the business. See the January newsletter here Asdem News January 2012 There is no substitute for attending a training course and hearing about the latest cases from someone who has had […]
Last week I was at the first European Oil Barge Conference in Rotterdam and here is a quick summary of what went on: Mark Richardson, Senior Barge Operator, Hess Energy Trading Co. Ltd Mark’s opening paper “Barge Operations Past, Present and Future” was a great start to the conference giving us all a history lesson […]
We heard this week that the Home Office got it wrong about the deadline to lodge an appeal in the case under the European Convention on Human Rights ECHR. Any good demurrage analyst could have told them that. The Government said the deadline for the appeal was midnight 16th April, whereas the other side said […]
This post first appeared in May 2012 Asdem Newsletter. To see this Newsletter please go to www.asdem.co.uk and look for the ‘Newsletters’ tab Argy-bargy is an old term for a wrangling argument or verbal dispute derived from an old Scottish word argle, which is assumed to be a derivative of the word argue. I think this is a good […]
Part-Time Terminals in the Barge market Welcome to my first blog. I will be commenting on all things connected with shipping and trading with particular focus on oil tankers and barges. This first blog is about the ARA barge market, and if you’re not interested in barges please look in later for other articles – […]