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Bow Wave 679--Boxing Day Edition

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(c)2013 WavyLine.com	Issue No 679 26 Dec 13
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Editor: Sam Ignarski
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In this issue:

1. Welcome
2. Seahorse Club 50th Anniversary & Journalist Awards
3. Appropos David Cheslin
4. ShelterBox
5. P&I Developments and our Friends in the North
6. And Finally...

1. Welcome

Poem of the Week

Boxing Day Pie

Thank you, Mr Hollywood, you really are a star!
With Aunty Mary Berry you have shown us much, so far! Never, ‘til today, had I attempted to make pastry. All culinary efforts had been made before in hastry. The Sunday Roast, I’d manage, as about the acme point, With roast potatoes, crisp and dry, to compliment the joint. Vegetables, steamed, al dente. Water saved for gravy. Practicality was vital, in the Merchant Navy.

Baking? Never had the patience. Never time to learn. Tempus fugit. Time’s arrived. Experience to learn. I watched your TV programme. How you showed it is not hard, If you follow all instructions and you grease the tin with lard. We’ve all grown up, d’you see, amidst such hubbub and such racket; And fooled are we to thinking now that life is in a packet. Testicles! It’s not at all! Life is what you make it! You’ve shown the greater value when you take the time to bake it!

Your pie for Boxing Day, I saw you turning out one evening. Wonderful it looked, with all ingredients and seasoning. Today I used some turkey bits, with chestnuts, apricots, Cranberries and sage and onion--enthusiasm, lots, To fill the pastry as you taught us, crimped around the edges, Decorated, fancy bits, and holly from the hedges. In every ship at sea, the complement salutes the Cook- And I’ll salute the Baker, too, now I have got your book!

Barrie Youde

Boxing Day 2013

Readers Write

From Louise Bradley

Re the unfortunate but unavoidable demise of Lloyd's List in print (Bow Wave Issue 678) does that mean that the Belfast Newsletter, established in 1737 now holds the title of oldest paper?

It has long described itself as the oldest English language general daily paper still in publication in the world. And hey, my GGGG....grandfather established it when he acquired a small printing press in settlement of a debt!

mailto:louise.bradley@shipowners.co.uk

Note from the Editor

Greetings from a seriously windswept editorial office here in the UK. We hope this little newsletter will not be too taxing for those readers still at the disks or still opening the odd email. We wish you all good things dear Readers and the joys and consolations of the season.

Enjoy!

2. Seahorse Club 50th Anniversary & Journalist Awards

Peter Owen writes:-

2013 is a very special year for the Seahorse Club as it celebrates its 50th Anniversary. To mark the occasion a very special Christmas Party was held in London on Tuesday, 10th December which attracted many Seahorse supporters both old and new.

In addition, two new Journalist Awards were launched; the first celebrating the influx of new blood into the ranks of transport journalism

The Newcomer of the Year award, sponsored by long-term Seahorse supporter, TT Club. The second award reflected the special skills required to successfully utilize the new social media revolution and is sponsored by ShipServ --The Social Media Journalist of the Year.

Once again Seahorse Club received a record number of entries (182 across the nine categories of award) from more than 72 journalists worldwide. The awards recognize excellence in news and feature writing for journalists specialising in the maritime, freight transport and supply chain industries.

Johanna Parsons of Logistics Manager was named Seahorse Club Journalist of the Year for a trilogy of articles which showed a great depth of content and research, and which were written in a style most likely to engage the reader.

The close runner-up for Seahorse Journalist of the Year was Holly Birkett who writes for Hazardous Cargo Bulletin.

International Editor of the Year was awarded to Julian Bray, editor of TradeWinds.

David Kershaw, who joined the Heavy Lift and Project Forwarding International editorial team just a year ago, was the inaugural winner of the Newcomer of the Year Award.

Mike King, based in Asia and writing for The Economist, was named News Journalist of the Year, with Savahna Nightingale, from Fairplay as the runner-up.

Tim Blakemore from Commercial Vehicle Engineer won Feature Journalist, with Stephen Spark from Fairplay Solutions named as runner-up.

Environmental Journalist of the Year is James Graham from the Baltic with Edwin Lampert from Riviera Media and writing for Future Marine Fuels & Lubricants, as runner-up.

Eric Kulisch based in the US and writing for American Shipper was named Supply Chain Journalist of the Year, with Damian Brett, from Informa’s Containerisation International as the runner-up.

The Air Cargo Journalist of the Year award was given to Megan Ramsay, a freelance journalist writing for Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding.

The first Social Media Journalist of the Year is Holly Birkett. Holly consistently engages with clients, PR and other journalists through various social media profiles as editor of Hazardous Cargo Bulletin, making this challenging topic both appealing and interesting.

Seahorse Club Chairman Peter Owen also announced the winners of the club’s two special awards, named in memory of two former Seahorse stalwarts.

Presenting the John Rose Personality of the Year Award award, Roger Hailey, editor of Containerisation International, made a memorable tribute to long-standing colleague and friend, Marcia Macleod, who after 40 years as a freelance journalist in the industry is putting this aside to work on more personal interests.

Finally, the John Richman Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to the late David Cheslin, a long term Seahorse support and Director of PR agency, Dunelm Public Relations Ltd.

The awards were presented at the Seahorse Club’s annual Christmas Party held in association with Associated British Ports. Event sponsorship was also provided by American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and International Transport Journal. Individual awards were sponsored by: APM Terminals, DP World, Geodis Wilson, Port of Singapore (PSA International), ShipServ, TT Club, UK P&I Club and Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics.

The Seahorse Club is a networking group for public relations, marketing, advertising and journalism professionals within the freight, passenger, shipping and logistics sectors.

Photo Note:
A gallery of photographs from the event will be made available on the website:

http://www.seahorseclub.co.uk

3. Appropos David Cheslin

Your editor had been asked to present the Seahorse award to David Cheslin, but being somewhat short of ambulatory confidence, the little speech below was kindly presented by Humphrey Hill

David Cheslin Short Speech for Seahorse Club award

I am sorry I have not been able to make it up for the Seahorse Club party. My blasted foot has been very slow to heal and I am still not exactly perfectly ambulant. I have been asked to say a very few words about the winner of the new Lifetime Achievement award, the late David Cheslin. I knew David from around 1989, when as the marketing manager of the TT CLUB we hired David to work on our latest wheeze and good idea, an international Ideas Competition called Stoploss 90. The Club in those days had a small PR contract with a city firm, but they were much more used to working with big city financial names, and in those days the TT Club was much more of an oily rag kind of organization. David we hired to spread the word of the international prize we offered for the best loss prevention ideas via specialist transport and shipping press around the world. At that time no other PR firm enjoyed the understanding and friendly relations he had with all manner of shipping papers. For me it was the start of a long relationship with a singular man whose enthusiasm for the subjects of containers and transport knew very few equals. The key to understanding this was that amongst anoraks, there is always someone who has the best coat.

He came by his love of the subject via the old school and the North east of England. He was a very fine journalist and writer of the good-plain-easy to
understand-prose school. Later on he went into PR and had many strong relationships. I remember at the time I met him, he knew the thoughts and ambitions of the Chairman of Evergreen, one of his bigger clients, and we in the TT Club met some junior functionary in the bookkeeping department for a nice lunch in Taipei once a year to be told the virtues of taking a long view and remaining patient.

David taught me a lot about the industry in general but also he was a testament to how living and breathing your subject will take you far in life. He had a go at various conferences and causes and he always seem to attract a superior kind of trainee account executive, usually attractive and female and usually, after a horough grounding in the subject of shipping, bound another PR company promoting music, fashion, make up, anything but shipping. Funnily enough, my own wife and daughters seem to share this indifference to the great subject of shipping. For me and for the industry, we were lucky to be able to call on David Cheslin’s knowledge and enthusiasm for his subject. The winners of this award in years to come will have to work very hard to match his tendencies and eagerness to know more, not to mention his sense of fun..

4. ShelterBox

Our favourite international charity ShelterBox has had a very busy year sending out its crates of helpful gear to places where storms or wars have wrecked the ordinary lives of people.

The ShelterBox solution in disaster response is as simple as it is effective.

The Charity delivers the essentials a family needs to survive in the immediate aftermath of a disaster.

Each large, green ShelterBox is tailored to a disaster but typically contains a disaster relief tent for an extended family, blankets, groundsheets, water storage and filtration equipment, cooking utensils, a basic tool kit, a children’s activity pack and other vital items.

http://www.shelterbox.org/about.php

Short Film about ShelterBox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1MxNmWM6DM

Images of 2013
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shelterboxuk/sets/72157638574140343/

5. P&I Developments and our Friends in the North

Word reaches us before the Christmas shutdown that the North of England P&I Association (North) and Sunderland Marine Mutual Insurance Company Limited (SMMI) are entering into a merger framework agreement which they say, if accepted by members, will result in the creation of one of the world’s largest marine insurance operations.

The two North East England based mutuals formed a strategic alliance in January 2012 and decided to enter into formal merger discussions earlier this year, since when they have both been conducting due diligence exercises.

[This sort of thing used to be more common in the industry in the 1990s, since when there has been a bit of a hiatus in merger activity. The most famous nearly merger between the Britannia and the Standard Clubs would have given the London industry a better shaking up than it had in the last thirteen years when the Clubs all floated like corks on the rising waters of the shipping boom and mostly managed to emerge from the greatest boom in shipping in centuries seriously short of cash--ed]

For more information about North of England P&I Association:-

http://www.nepia.com/?

For more information about Sunderland Marine Mutual Insurance Company Limited

http://www.smmi.co.uk/

6. And Finally...

Message for the Holidays Courtesy of Larry Klutz in Miami

With the Holidays upon us I would like to share a personal experience with my friends about drinking and driving.

As you may know, some of us have been known to have brushes with the authorities from time to time on the way home after a "social session" out with friends.

Well, two days ago I was out for an evening with friends and had a couple of cocktails with dinner, followed by a grappa for dessert.Feeling full of Christmas cheer, I still had the sense to know that I might be slightly over the limit.

That's when I did something that I've never done before - I took a cab home.

Sure enough on the way home there was a police road block, but since it was a cab they waved it past. I arrived home safely without incident.

This was a real surprise as I had never driven a cab before.

I don't know where I got it and now that it's in my garage I don't know what to do with it

mailto:klutzl@aol.com

Attention to Detail

Poor Johnson had spent his life making wrong decisions. If he bet on a horse, it would lose; if he chose one elevator rather than another, it was the one he chose that stalled between floors; the line he picked before the bank teller's cage never moved; the lane he chose in traffic crawled; the day he picked the picnic was the day of a cloudburst; and so it went, day after day, year after year.

Then, once, it became necessary for Johnson to travel to some city a thousand miles away and do it quickly. A plane was the only possible conveyance that would get him there in time, and it turned out that only one company supplied only one flight that would do. His heart pounded. There was no choice to make! And if he made no choice, surely he could come to no grief.

He took the plane.

Imagine his horror when, midway in the flight, the plane's engines caught fire and it became obvious the plane would crash in moments.

Johnson broke into fervent prayer to his favorite saint, Saint Francis. He pleaded, "I have never in my life made he right choice. Why this should be, I don't know, but I have borne my cross and have not complained. On this occasion, however, I did not make a choice; this was the only plane I could take and I had to take it. Why, then, am I being punished?"

He had no sooner finished when a giant hand swooped down out of the clouds and somehow snatched him from the plane. There he was, miraculously suspended two miles above the earth's surface, while the plane spiraled downward far below.

A heavenly voice came down from the clouds. "My son, I can save you, if you have in truth called upon me."

"Yes, I called on you," cried Johnson. "I called on you, Saint Francis!"

"Ah," said the heavenly voice, "Saint Francis Xavier or Saint Francis of Assisi. Which?"

Heading for Pastures New

Tis the time of year when people move on to new things, either as a result of getting the old heave ho or terminal dissatisfaction.

Here courtesy of Paul Dixon is an exposition of "Resumania" which is said to be a term coined by Mr. Robert Half, founder of RHI Consulting's parent company, describing the unintentional bloopers that often appear on job candidates' resumes,cvs job applications and cover letters.

Here are some examples:

"I perform my job with effortless efficiency, effectiveness, efficacy, and expertise."

"Insufficient writing skills, thought processes have slowed down some. If I am not one of the best, I will look for another opportunity."

"Seek challenges that test my mind and body, since the two are usually inseparable."

"My compensation should be at least equal to my age."

"I am very detail-oreinted."

"I can play well with others."

"Married, eight children. Prefer frequent travel."

"Objection: To utilize my skills in sales."

"My salary requirement is $34 per year."

"Served as assistant sore manager."

"Work history: Bum. Abandoned belongings and led nomadic lifestyle."

"Previous experience: Self-employed - a fiasco."

"I vow to fulfill the goals of the company as long as I live."

"Reason for leaving last job: Pushed aside so the vice president's girlfriend could steal my job."

From David Gardy and our friends at TV Worldwide:-

Happy Holidays from everyone at TV Worldwide! Please enjoy our on-demand Internet TV Cracklin’ Digital Fireplace and accompanying Jazz Christmas Carols from the ‘Sentimental Christmas’ album featuring Gerry Beaudoin and the Boston Jazz Ensemble. (Free MP3 download also available for this music at the links below). Gerry often performs with TV Worldwide board member J. Geils, formerly of the J.Geils Band, in the jazz group, New Guitar Summit. Their music is available for purchase at:-

http://www.FrancescaRecords.com

http://events.tvworldwide.com/Events/christmas2013.aspx

http://www.tvworldwide.net/

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