June 2017

"To be in a ship is to be in prison - with the risk of drowning," wrote Samuel Johnson. The good doctor protests too much, I thought of a martini in the soaring atrium of a ship sailing south through the mid-Atlantic. In front of me, a…

Extensive work on a cruise liner and two super luxury yachts has kept workers at the Palumbo shipyard busy in recent weeks. The shipyard, which recently ranked third in the world for cruise ship refits, dedicated 1,000 people over a period…