Tariffs and shipping

This is from Peter in Vancouver

On August 16 we will hold a training day in Halifax. We have people from Saint John, St. John’s and Halifax planning to come. The course “Safe Talk” will be presented by Josh Messick from Baltimore. This is a key course that will be required by anyone who has contact with seafarers in any of…

I am currently in Vancouver at a regional NAMMA Conference.    Jason Z, true to his calling, did an amazing deep dive into the history of the shared work here in Vancouver.   It was excellent scholarly work as he took us through the “story” of tensions, visions, realities and resolution. Every port community has its…

This morning I listened to the most recent pod cast from “The Last Dinosaur” It was a great interview from a guy who used to work quite literally as a rocket scientist steering satellite’s and programming them. He has pivoted to a new company as is working at solutions to make ports more efficient using…

Have a look at the Master Mariners News Clips page. This is the perspective of ship captains and there is always something relevent in these almost daily articles. Note that the first cruise ship of the season has just arrived in Halifax! Also I have been assigned a MTS email. eric.phinney@mtsmail.org Please update your records….

I have created a WhatsApp group for all Station Managers and Chaplains. Most of us use this forum for connecting with seafarers anyway so why reinvent something. Look at the lower bottom right of any page on this site and you should see it. This is a chat facility to keep in touch with one…