Carolyn Graham

Christian Ayerst from Mental Health Support Solutions watched on in horror as a Danish football collapsed on the pitch on Saturday. Later on, he had time to reflect what lessons we in shipping can learn from the incident. Like so many, I watched in horror as the drama unfolded. A nothing challenge. …

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It was with shock, horror, a deep sense of sadness, and a mix of other emotions that I ca...

With many crews now at sea for more than a year thanks to coronavirus travel restrictions and the sterile environment of most accommodation blocks adding to declining mental wellbeing one shipowner has decided to buck the trend and actually invest to make its living quarters at sea more bearable. Si…

The crew change crisis shows no sign of abating, still affecting some 600,000 seafarers either stranded at sea or waiting for employment on land. After a series of tremendous shipping casualties hogged the maritime media headlines in the last five weeks, the crew change issue is now getting back ont…

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The development of maritime technologies has significantly enhanced the safety level of ship navigation today, however human error is still widely recognised as a main cause of maritime incidents. Cyprus-based maritime technology and marine risk firm Prevention at Sea is offering a technology soluti…

Any disruption to the US Postal Service could also hamper efforts for Americans to vote by mail in the November election.

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One of my master’s dissertations looked at male victims of domestic abuse. Its focus was ...

Anglo-Eastern’s Captain Pradeep Chawladiscusses the need to re-focus on human factors to prevent accidents. The approach is to investigate the eco-system in which the seafarer takes decisions rather than blaming the seafarer. He discusses how to encourage mutual respect for the seafarer and use posi…

The embattled UK Ship Register has dropped out of the world’s top 20 list of flag states by size for the first time since records began. Latest statistics from the World Fleet Monitor monthly publication issued yesterday by Clarkson Research Services sees the UK flag slide out of the world’s top 20 …

Could seafarers’ experiences of mental health management be adding to the problem? Carolyn Graham investigates. Would talking about health in committee meetings on ships contribute to improving seafarers’ health and safety? While concerns for seafarers’ mental health is not new, there appears to be …

Diane Gilpin from the Smart Green Shipping Alliance exhorts readers to quit pussyfooting around when it comes to embracing the possibilities surrounding decarbonisation. I love this artwork by Erica Nockalls, created for HELIX’s events at the COP23 climate conference currently being held in Bonn. It…

A key part of Splash’s crew abandonment campaign has been to engage as many different sectors of shipping as possible in order to attack this problem from multiple angles. When it came to insurance, Splash felt it might have found an ideal industry to take the punitive action necessary to rid shippi…

The world’s largest international third party shipmanagers with one notable exception – Executive Ship Management – have today pledged not to conduct business with any owner who has a recent history of abandoning crews, in the first step of a Splash campaign to engage key stakeholders and help quash…

The frozen meal and dessert brand is using its high visibility to support Habitat for Humanity’s Comforts From Home Project using marked packages with a special code each, which will translate into financial donations to the organization when shoppers input the code.

With a new year fast approaching, it’s time for Creative Boom’s annual unveiling of the freshest blogs and websites for creative entrepreneurs. This definitive list for 2016 includes some of our usual...