David K Wright

Royal Mail owner rejects £4.5bn takeover bid from Czech billionaire Křetínský

...“Handing over the ownership of one of the UK’s most prestigious institutions to a foreign equity investor cannot be right,” said David Ward, general secretary of the CWU....

April 17, 2024

Container shipping

Container lines ‘struggling’ with port congestion and ship shortages

...ONE was formed in 2018 through the merger of the container businesses of Japan’s NYK Line, K Line and Mol. Container ships mostly carry manufactured goods in steel boxes....

February 20, 2024

FT Live

Investing in America

Foreign companies as drivers of US growth, resilience and competitiveness

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics AS

Car-carrier line WW makes record profits on Chinese EV exports

...Along with Scandinavian rival Höegh Autoliners and Japanese conglomerates NYK Line, MOL and K Line, WW dominates an industry that transports cars built in Japan, South Korea and China to markets in Europe...

February 14, 2024

News in-depthShipping

Surge in maritime violence boosts demand for private security forces

...David Johnson, chief executive of EOS Risk, a leading UK operator in the field, confirmed his company had been receiving more business as a result of the surge of insecurity....

April 21, 2024

Shipping

Red Sea reroutings to further disrupt car supply chains, warn shipping executives

...executive of Oslo-based Wallenius Wilhelmsen, and Georg Whist, CEO of Gram Car Carriers, were speaking after continued attacks in the Red Sea last week prompted two leading Japanese operators — NYK Line and K...

January 23, 2024

ExplainerMaritime accidents and safety

The Baltimore bridge disaster: what happened and who will pay?

...“Ship impact is a key consideration in modern, large span bridges in busy navigation areas,” said David Knight, specialist adviser to the UK’s Institution of Civil Engineers....

March 27, 2024

FT Live

Commodities Asia Summit

Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows

Maritime accidents and safety

Search suspended for missing people in Baltimore bridge collapse

...Additional reporting by David Sheppard, Michael Peel and Ian Smith in London...

March 27, 2024

Personal Finance

A mid-life inheritance: handling a painful windfall

...Yet David Hearne, a chartered financial planner for FPP, a consultancy based in Berkshire, says many heirs have conflicted feelings about inheriting — and that their feelings can be critical to how they...

March 1, 2024

Six theatre shows to see in London

Minority Report, Lyric Hammersmith — timely tale of AI thought police rebooted

...David Haig’s new stage adaptation of Minority Report starts, as does Steven Spielberg’s 2002 action movie, with Philip K Dick’s sci-fi novella....

April 30, 2024

ReviewDance

The Sleeping Beauty, Sadler’s Wells — soloists shine in classic production

...His successor, David Bintley, scorned to import talent but Acosta is more than happy to spice up his cast lists and thus raise the game of the company as a whole....

April 26, 2024

InterviewTheatre

Minority Report and the rise of sci-fi on stage

...as David piles problems at my doorstep.” Haig has had challenges of his own....

February 13, 2024

Oil

Oil tops $80 a barrel after Houthi threat diverts tankers from Red Sea

Brent rises following US-UK strikes in Yemen and advisory warning to vessels

January 12, 2024

Letter

Letter: Snails, not naked clams, are the real superfood

...David Willer’s article “To save the oceans, start eating ‘naked clams’” (Opinion, April 4) and the claim that this product was suitable for processing as nuggets, fishcakes and battered food made me sad....

April 10, 2024

News updates from December 15: Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay $148mn to 2020 election workers, Israel mistakenly kills three hostages in Gaza

Leading shipping companies move to halt journeys through Red Sea

December 15, 2023

Middle East

Iran seizes Gulf oil tanker in new threat to Middle East shipping

Move close to crude chokepoint comes as Tehran-backed rebels menace vessels in Red Sea

January 11, 2024

FT Live

Commodities Global Summit 2025

The pre-eminent gathering of senior commodity executives, traders and financiers

HTSIBig spring energy – an HTSI style special

Samantha Cameron is raising the tabard

...And while Cameron stepped back from Smythson when David became PM, now there’s no need for them to have an either/or arrangement....

February 6, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Shipping companies avoid Red Sea after Houthi attacks

Mærsk and Hapag-Lloyd halt journeys as threats mount to global supply chains through Suez Canal

December 15, 2023

FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen

Why Russia was caught off guard

...Louis, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer....

March 26, 2024

John Gapper

The strange new economy of all-you-can-eat buffets

...David Just, a Cornell University economics professor who has studied buffet behaviour, tells me that a bargain offer of prime crustacean is bound to attract “many people who place a high value on one item...

May 3, 2024

Frasers Group

Ex-accounting watchdog head to join Frasers board in corporate governance push

...Frasers’ chief operating officer David Al-Mudallal and Ger Wright, a managing director, will join the board as executive directors....

February 26, 2024

HTSI

What’s the secret to the perfect restaurant soundtrack?

...“If I’m eating a great meal with friends and dancing a little in my seat that’s the best environment,” says Wright. (Find CJ Wright’s playlist here.) Of course, it’s all about striking a balance....

February 19, 2024

The Oscars 2024: all you need to know

Oppenheimer leaves Oscar rivals in the dust with 13 nominations

...Fiction Best Actress Annette Bening, Nyad Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall Carey Mulligan, Maestro Emma Stone, Poor Things Best Supporting Actor Sterling K...

January 23, 2024

FT Magazine

‘We’re all maggots’: an audience with Jim Riswold, the copywriter behind some of Nike’s greatest adverts

...Nike was still widely known as a running shoe company when it first signed with W+K in 1982, the same year the firm was founded by Wieden and David Kennedy....

March 9, 2024

Britain after Brexit

A redemptive moment for EU-UK relations Premium

...(On financial services this paper for the Conservative European Forum by William Wright of New Financial sets out the challenges....

May 9, 2024

Letter

Letter: Punk band’s birth pangs struck a discordant note

...However, John Wright’s interview piece with Lydon (“‘I terrified a nation....

February 23, 2024

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