AAL beat off intense competition from the sector's leading carriers, to win the prestigious „Best Shipping Line Project Cargo“ award at the high profile AFLAS Awards in Singapore on 29th June 2017 – the fourth consecutive year AAL has won...
A diary of one man’s journey “Once upon a Saga” is my one-man journey to visit every country in the world in a single journey, without the use of flight while travelling as a goodwill ambassador for the Danish Red Cross....
A big thank you to Luka, a budding young artist who is the 7 year old son of Silvija, our Crewing Assistant in CSM Rijeka. Luka sent us his terrific vessel drawings of the A-Class “AAL Shanghai” and S-Class “AAL...
An owl embarked at the port of Sokhna in Egypt and travelled with us via Suez Bay, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Malaca Strait and left the vessel on Singapore anchorage. Our unexpected visitor stayed onboard for around 15 days. I left...
During April and May of 2017 I was assigned to the QHSE-Marine Department in CSM's head office in Cyprus. My task was the revision of a shipboard safety management system manual. The first part of the project was easier to compile...
If you were asked to guess how long a glass bottle would last at sea what would your answer be? Considering the rade of disintegration, rough waters, extreme climate conditions, the underlying sharp coral reefs, and huge over-looking boulders on...
Captain Andrej Barbalic recently visited our Columbia Cyprus office (on 29-30 Sep.) and spoke with Compass about his career so far. Captain Andrej Barbalic was born in Rijeka and grew up with a view of the whole port. Since the...
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