Slow-steaming is the most potent measure for reducing fuel consumption with existing vessels, and it offers shipowners an attractive mix of reduced operational costs, lower external effects and lower vessel capacity on the shipping market.
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine was founded in 1898 by Sir Alfred Lewis Jones, a local shipowner, a year before its London counterpart.
Juha's great-grandfather was a shipowner and a shipping entrepreneur.
OSAMA BIN LADEN, intelligence sources would have us believe, is, among other things, a shipowner with a fleet of over 20 ships, probably flying flags of convenience (FOCs).
Sliding charter rates are more a reflection of the eternal optimism of shipowners than a calamitous foundering of the world economy.Episodes of short-term volatility are one way that the touchiness of the index to the vagaries of supply and demand manifests itself.
Indicative of their pre-eminent role in a sector now worth about $660bn£400bnbn), this year Greek shipowners placed a record number of orders to build new vessels in shipyards around the world, outstripping any of their global competitors.
When a shipowner makes an initial enquiry, he usually gives the shipbuilder four items of information: type of vessel, deadweight of the new ship, required service speed, route on which the new vessel will operate.
"Shipowners give a lot to this country.
In the run up to the financial crisis, as the world economy boomed and rates hit new heights, shipowners ordered a huge tonnage of bulk carriers.
The Death on the High Seas Act (dohsa), a United States federal law, requires a shipowner to compensate a dead crewman's family for wages he would have earned had he worked a normal life.
