The Secretary-General is concerned about the growing humanitarian and safety crisis facing seafarers around the world. As a result of COVID-related travel restrictions, hundreds of thousands […]
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) announced that with the consortium members, MOL, two of its group companies, and other consortium members have jointly applied to the […]
GLOBAL ship management company V.Group has facilitated 7,315 seafarers movements in the three months since 17th March. Stranded at sea due to the crew change crisis, […]
Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, in collaboration with Shin Nihonkai Ferry Co., Ltd., has successfully applied for grant aid […]
The Baltic Exchange’s Expert Witness Association is ready to establish itself as the center of the maritime expert witness world. Born from the previous Baltic Exchange […]
On April 8 Stena Line announced plans to permanently close the ferry route between Trelleborg and Sassnitz. The Company and the German Works Council have now […]
A total of 56 Filipino seafarers were repatriated from Ankara on Thursday. They were a part of 128 strong brigade of Overseas Filipino Workers(OFWs) repatriated by […]
New Zealand has finally allowed the opening up of the maritime industry by lifting all restrictions that were related to COVID. However, cruise ships and leisure […]
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and International Maritime Organization (IMO) gave out a rough estimate of about 3,00,000 seafarers who will need flights […]
A.P Moller- Maersk group has dedicated 300 plus ships from its fleet to the US government’s Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) programme with an aim to help […]
With immediate effect, ferries coming to the Netherlands from the United Kingdom are no longer allowed to carry passengers. The ferries are still permitted access to […]
The IMO executed GloFouling Partnerships Project and the Government of the Philippines have organized the first delivery of a newly-developed general training course on biofouling management. […]
Wärtsilä Voyage has successfully completed its first commercial installation of the state-of-the-art Wärtsilä Navi-Harbour WebVTS 5.0 software application. The system was ordered by Netherlands-based Wintershall Noordzee […]
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) held an online presentation ceremony for the “MOL Presidential Awards for Officers and Engineers 2020” on December 9. The awards are […]
In an industry first, ABS has awarded Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) Approval in Principle (AIP) for crew accommodation and ventilation systems designed to mitigate the spread […]
Liberia finishes off 2020 as the world’s fastest-growing flag State for the second year in a row. In late 2018 Liberia became the second-largest flag State […]
ABS, Sembcorp Marine, and A*STAR’s Institute of High-Performance Computing (IHPC) have successfully completed joint development projects in LNG bunkering and the use of LNG as a […]
Charterers’ “no crew change” clauses aggravate the ongoing crew change crisis and further threaten the safety of navigation, says IMO Secretary-General. IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has […]
Pope Francis has voiced his concern for stranded seafarers affected by the crew change crisis and urged governments to do all they can to repatriate them. […]