
Herbert Kennard: 1919-2020
27 Mar 2020It is with great sadness that HCB reports the death of long-time contributor...
It is with great sadness that HCB reports the death of long-time contributor...
Regular readers will know that here on the Back Page we have little truck with...
I have just returned from Rotterdam where, despite the Coronavirus crisis, the...
Talk about bad timing… Only last month in this column I was exhorting you all...
Thirty years ago, then-editor Mike Corkhill opened the March 1990 edition of...
I hate to admit it, but it’s true. The ‘From the Porch Swing’ column...
It must be an interesting life being involved in emergency response. We dare...
When I joined HCB in 1993, I knew next to nothing about the regulations that...
Every year since 2009 I have read the Global Risks Report issued just before...
As regular readers of the Back Page may well have spotted by now, there are...
The February 1990 issue of HCB kicked off with comments from editor Mike...
Once upon a very long time ago, when I was but a nipper, I had an uncle who...
President Trump’s approval of the killing of Iranian General Soleimani in...
It has historically not been easy to make money in the shipping industry –...
HCB began its second decade of publication inauspiciously, with a rather...
Here’s one of those headlines that pull us up short: “Man ‘could have...
You have probably heard about the United Nations’ Sustainable Development...
Thirty years ago, HCB celebrated ten years of monthly publication with a bumper...
This is the time of year I like the best. It’s not the impending...
The Kodak Effect is a well-known phenomenon. The erstwhile industry leader in...
Regardless of what they would like to believe, humans are – by and large –...