Yep, it's all happening here in the Fragrant Harbour, folks! iCadets who will work for peanuts recruited from the Third World, continuous attacks on the experienced crews' contracts over the last two decades, chaotic rosters and lousy hotels. This is all despite the empty psychobabble about 'Visions and Missions' and 'Safety Reviews'; nothing's changed or is likely to.
Funnily enough, the Swire Group runs ships as well. And a few of us remember the oil spilt off Australia's east coast a few years ago when a Swire ship, under the command of a fatigued captain under pressure to maintain his schedule, wasn't where it should have been...
2009 southeast Queensland oil spill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia