Sixty two seafarers – most of whom are South Africans – had a lucky escape after abandoning their Belize-flagged fishing vessel, Geo Searcher, in the South Atlantic about 2,500 km from Cape Town. The South […]
According to the latest quarterly report by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), Southeast Asia has recorded 51 piracy attacks year to date, surpassing the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) with 44 incidents. The IMB report shows […]
I have responded to more incidents of seafarers attacking their shipmates, more confirmed suicides, and more people missing overboard (suspected suicides) in 2020 than in any other year of my career. The number of such […]
South Africa has conducted “hundreds” of crew changes at its nine commercial ports since the country eased its COVID-19 lockdown restrictions to level 2 on 18 August 2020 and level 1 on 21 September 2020. […]
Sixty crew members stranded aboard Indian cruise liner Karnika have been pushed into a more perilous situation after indebted owner Jalesh Cruises put out a notice to shut operations amid mounting unpaid wages claims and […]
The Chinese government has opened up 10 ports for crew change. These ports are Dalian, Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Haikou. The crew change notice, issued by the Ministry of Transport, […]
COVID-19 has hit a second bulk carrier in Port Hedland, Australia. A Filipino seafarer from the Panama-flagged Vega Dream was transferred to the Hedland Health Campus clinical care on 11 October after testing positive for […]
Singapore is extending the COVID-19 unemployment relief for seafarers to 31 December 2020; the original deadline was on 31 July 2020. As the scheme has been extended to six months, the relief amount cap of the […]
Crew change activity at the outer anchorage of India’s Cochin Port Trust (CPT) is poised to become more expensive for global shipowners with the announcement of additional user charges. CPT has been a sought-after gateway […]
Two bulk carriers ran aground after losing their power off the coasts of Virginia and Oregon, US, on 30 September and 1 October, respectively. The recent incidents, including the Wakashio grounding, have caused speculation over […]
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