Lifetime Career

Here you are a very positive video made by V.Ships, which shows various people and their individual goals that do exist besides the financial benefits to be extracted from the respective jobs. Their is stressed because I always saw my own career as a part of the industry and not vice versa.

I consider this video to have a very strong incentivizing effect and therefore worth viewing more than once.





In the interviews one could find out what the people strive for in their professional lives. For me Magnus Boateng has already carved it out as:
"Reason for me to come ashore I would to say I'd put on down to the desire to acquire knowledge."

Интегрированная система мониторинга прибрежных вод

Мой доклад на конференции ОНМА (ноя 2011), в котором рассматривается концепция информационных автоматизированных систем, обеспечивающих безопасность судоходства, прибрежных вод и объектов береговой инфраструктуры - систем мониторинга прибрежных вод.


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Трёхмерное отображение генеральных грузов в трюмах судна

Мой доклад на конференции ОНМА (ноя 2011), в котором приводится описание принципов трехмерного отображение укладки генеральных грузов различной конфигурации в трюмах судна.

Imagine Life is a game...

In a university commencement address at the Georgia Tech 172nd on Sept. 6, 1996, Brian Dyson, former CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, said:

"IMAGINE LIFE AS A GAME IN WHICH YOU ARE JUGGLING SOME FIVE BALLS IN THE AIR. You name them - Work, Family, Health, Friends and Spirit - and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.

But the other four balls - Family, Health, Friends, and Spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same.
You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.

In some internet sources one could find the 'full' text with the following guidance (attributed to Dyson but allegedly originating from the book "Suzanne's Diary to Nicholas" by James Patterson):

You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. How?
· Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.
· Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.
· Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as they were your life, for without them, life is meaningless.
· Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life.
· Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.
· Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us to each together.
· Don't be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.
· Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.
· Don't run through life so fast that you forget not only where you've been, but also where you are going.
· Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
· Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.
· Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved.
· Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.

Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, and Today is a gift: That's why we call it The Present."

I am not a great fan of great quotes and do not accept the guidance as the new testament, especially in savouring The Presence. However, if the Five Balls speech was actually restricted to the goal of 'balance' only, then I do more than applaud to Dyson for his depth of sight and shrewdness in not providing the recipe of keeping the balance. Everyone finds own.

Надбавка за безопасность или за опасность?

По сообщениям газеты South China Morning Post, совет ассоциаций экспортеров Гонконга, представляющий производителей, экспедиторов и торговые палаты, а также отдельные предприятия розничной торговли, логистические компании, производителей и юридические фирмы, обратился к крупнейшим контейнерным линиям за разъяснениями по поводу введения надбавок на противостояние угрозе пиратства для судов, следующих транзитом через Индийский океан и в районе северо-восточного побережья Африки.

Источник: Wikipedia

Распространение угрозы пиратства в северо-западных водах Индийского океана

В частности Maersk Line подняли уровень безопасности своих перевозок через Индийский океан, Аравийское море и в Аденском заливе, расходы на которые должны компенсировать введённые надбавки (Security Surcharges) от 20 до 50% к базисному тарифу (200 - 500USD).

Кроме Maersk Line подобные меры введены со стороны таких глобальных лидеров как CMA CGM и MSC, ожидается заявление об использовании вооружённой охраны на судах крупнейшего азиатского перевозчика OOCL.

Дополнительная плата начисляется в зависимости от риска по скользящей шкале и предназначена для покрытия издержек на вооруженную охрану судна и комплекс других мер:

• укрепление периметра судна;
• обучение экипажа;
• плавание на более высоких скоростях;
• охрану портов и якорных стоянок и др.

Можно даже не вспоминать о том, что все расходы в конце концов лягут бременем на конечных потребителей товара.