Amasra Port provides refuge for natural gas drilling vessels as a storm in the Black Sea brings winds up to 90 km/h and waves over 8 meters high.

There are some incidents which might be regarded as illustrative of a number of things that are badly wrong in the maritime world. They may not be much in the public arena, exciting the attention of the man and woman in the street, but nevertheless cause people in the shipping industry to shake their heads in disbelief at the curious ways of the world, in which common sense and logic seem to be se...