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Some of the images in this Verso video may be familiar from my previous posts about my containership trips. Here is choose 5 photographs and talk about them: The photos are the following (not in ...

https://thegamming.org/2020/06/03/why-shipping-is-central-to-the-very-fabric-of-global-capitalism/

Matthew Sweet of BBC Free Thinking was a brilliant reader of the book, having read closely and with an eye for fetching detail. We talked for about half an hour, and the interview can be heard he...

https://thegamming.org/2020/04/15/bbc-3-free-thinking-interview-with-matthew-sweet/

I have been reading Arab navigation manuals and travelogues, and there is such poetry in the navigation manuals in particular. It is the liminality of the navigation texts in particular – betwe...

https://thegamming.org/2017/09/13/the-poetry-of-medieval-maritime-travel/

“More interesting is the testimony of Ibn al-Mujawir who reports that in 626 A.H./1228-9 A.D. a ship arrived in Aden from Qumr (Comoros or Madagascar); the art of navigation of the people of Qu...

https://thegamming.org/2017/09/11/medieval-arab-naviation/

13 August 06.00 ship time (GMT+2); 07.00 GPS time (my phone) Steaming towards Beirut The ship left Damietta sometime after midnight, having spent only twelve hours there. The officers must be abs...

https://thegamming.org/2017/02/23/malta-dubai-august-2016-day-4-steaming-towards-beirut/

Friday 12 August 12.15 (GMT +2) Arriving in Damietta You can tell you are approaching port by a number of signs. First is the arrival of the land creatures: swifts, green flies, storks (or someth...

https://thegamming.org/2017/02/22/malta-dubai-august-2016-day-3-damietta/

11 August 2016 10.35 (Ship time. My phone’s GPS says it is actually 11.35) The Mediterranean; steaming towards Damietta The Mediterranean is such a lonely sea. Its vastness is such that one doe...

https://thegamming.org/2017/02/22/malta-dubai-august-2016-day-2/

In August 2016, I once again boarded a ship in Malta to travel to Jabal Ali.  I had recorded the previous occasion with giddy excitement, all things seeming new and unfamiliar.  Perhaps the fam...

https://thegamming.org/2017/02/22/malta-dubai-again-august-2016-setting-off/

Charmaine Chua and I both took containerships roughly at the same time.  She was much more involved: her trip took longer, on a different route, and she worked onboard.  We talk about our exper...

https://thegamming.org/2015/04/29/comparing-experiences/

15 February 2015 16.00 We have arrived too soon, because of steaming at high speed through the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea, in order for the ship to make it to Ningbo for an ear...

https://thegamming.org/2015/03/05/arrival/