Dick Welsh, the outgoing head of the Isle of Man Ship Registry, talks flag state responsibility in life and death situations – and being former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s pen pal

Consent comes through just weeks before construction is due to start on the multi-million pound port project

Ocean Transportation business will consider including diversity criteria for event sponsorship

As the UK government struggles to defend the collapse of its £13.8m post-Brexit contingency contract with Seaborne Freight, it has emerged that attempts to shore up ferry port infrastructure with cheap loans have so far resulted in no ports taking up the offer

Dick Welsh is to retire after 13 years at the helm of fast-growing ship registry

There is a ‘fleeting window of opportunity’ to act in unison and reverse the worrying developments on both the UK flag and the tonnage tax scheme