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		<title>Cruise disaster could have larger lessons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed an article from Melissa Bert, a USCG captain, that asks some interesting questions about Costa Concordia, current safety regs and training procedures. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.claymaitland.com/2012/01/27/cruise-disaster-could-have-larger-lessons/</link>
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		<title>Balancing size and safety.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not just a question of whether there are enough lifeboats or rafts on cruiseships, but whether passengers will have time to gain access to them AS WE approach the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic this coming April, passengership safety remains an important issue. Between 1990 and 2000, the cruise market [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.claymaitland.com/2012/01/27/balancing-size-and-safety/</link>
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		<title>Does industry lack integrity when it comes to dangerous cargo safety?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shipping industry conspicuously silent about Vinalines Queen death toll]]></description>
		<link>http://www.claymaitland.com/2012/01/25/does-industry-lack-integrity-when-it-comes-to-dangerous-cargo-safety/</link>
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		<title>The mind of a man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As everyone from the popular media to the ship’s operators queue up to condemn the master of the Costa Concordia, how many of his accusers takes a moment to consider for a moment what must have been going through the mind of that man as he felt the rocks bite into the port side of his huge ship? ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.claymaitland.com/2012/01/23/the-mind-of-a-man/</link>
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		<title>The changing face of flag authorities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[QUALITY and performance standards are, in these times of economic woe, often more important to the struggling shipowner and operator than back in the days when money grew on trees — or seemed to. “Value is where you find it,” one owner recently remarked. “Particularly operational value. I have to run my ships. I need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.claymaitland.com/2012/01/21/1196/</link>
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		<title>Things to fix.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is, of course, too early to be making pronouncements about the grounding of the Costa Concordia, while the courageous divers are still probing the underwater horrors of a huge capsized ship. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.claymaitland.com/2012/01/18/things-to-fix/</link>
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		<title>The percentage game again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of luck involved in salvage. Those involved in the salvage of the containershp Rena which went aground on the Astrolabe Reef off Tauranga three months ago might have comforted themselves with the prospect of better weather as the southern spring gave way to summer. Alas, as the tourists have complained, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.claymaitland.com/2012/01/13/the-percentage-game-again/</link>
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		<title>A grim reminder of present problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before we get too exercised by the commemoration of the Titanic centenary, it might be quite apposite to recall that next month it will be 25 years since the purpose-built 1150teu containership Hanjin Incheon was lost in the North Pacific with all on board. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.claymaitland.com/2012/01/05/a-grim-reminder-of-present-problems/</link>
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		<title>Another hazardous cargo, another sinking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Christmas day, the bulk carrier Vinalines Queen, carrying a cargo of nickel ore from Morowali, Indonesia, to China, went missing.  The ship and its crew of 22 must now be considered lost.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.claymaitland.com/2012/01/04/another-hazardous-cargo-another-sinking/</link>
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		<title>Symbols of maritime decline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our government’s present inability to land a cargo of gasoline in a U.S.-flag vessel in icebound Nome, Alaska, symbolizes the shortage of foresight of our maritime policy makers. We are unable to provide a U.S.-flag ice-strengthened tanker to lift cargo between points in the United States (within Alaska), and will apparently have to secure the services of a Russian vessel instead.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.claymaitland.com/2012/01/03/symbols-of-maritime-decline/</link>
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