URSABLOG: Stimulating Forecasts
Earlier this week I rather unwisely got involved in an online discussion on The Athletic, an online sports journal, about the upcoming signings that Liverpool Football Club wi
URSABLOG: My Struggle With Truth
I struggle with the truth. I admit it. I do not admit for one moment that I construct a world made out of lies, or I peddle blatant untruths in order to gain what I want. My own my
URSABLOG: Technologically Propelled
I have become used to seeing self-congratulatory, self-serving, virtue signalling press releases from various shipowners, shipyards, ship designers, main engine supplies and other
URSABLOG: Hot Metal News
A short article in Splash 24/7 sparked my interest today: Abu Dhabi’s AD Ports Group has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the world’s largest producer of ir
URSABLOG: Fundamentally Misleading
Yesterday afternoon I found myself together with two colleagues from URSA Shipbrokers at the Marriott Hotel in Athens as guests of Simpson Spence and Young at a presentation they w
URSABLOG: Ancient Working Wisdom
Language is a flexible tool, and changes with the times. An example of this is today’s management speak (or LinkedIn speak perhaps) can also confuse and amuse in equal measure. I
URSABLOG: Thirty Years? Already?
If today’s blog is a little early, it is because today marks a special anniversary: it is thirty years to the day that I walked into an office in Water Street in Liverpool and st
URSABLOG: Deep Dive
It is natural when thinking about starting a new business to think of something tech-based, cool, trendy with people staring into laptops surrounded by empty pizza boxes and pullin
URSABLOG: Grains Of Truth
If ever there was evidence needed that shipping – i.e. transporting stuff by ships – was more efficient and caused less friction in the world than other methods of transportati
URSABLOG: Can You Read My Mind?
It continues to bother me a great deal how much effort goes into trying to work out what someone else is thinking. It bothers me more that we manifestly can’t. And it bothers me