The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has told Safety at Sea that it is helping 12 Myanmarese seafarers to get their outstanding salaries after the group was repatriated from Taiwan on 4 November 2019. The […]
Wilhelmsen Ship Management (WSM) CEO Carl Schou has told Safety at Sea that it plans to expand its operations in China, especially where recruitment of Chinese seafarers is concerned. This is because WSM anticipates more […]
Work at sea is inherently hazardous, but some seafarers face extreme danger on a daily basis, which requires a greater emphasis on safety awareness, protective measures, and effective management. The people who do the five […]
The human element is often missing from safety data and more information sharing is needed across the industry, if safety outcomes are to be improved. That was the consensus reached by safety experts at the […]
Penalisation is the among the most effective tools to raise organisational safety compliance, participants at a recent Safety at Sea roundtable agreed. IHS Markit data on Port State Control (PSC) inspections presented at the […]
Three piracy incidents took place during the first 20 days of October 2019 in the Strait of Singapore, according to a report by Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery (ReCAAP) Information Sharing […]
A review of recent maritime safety data trends led to a lively debate among industry experts at a special event hosted by SAS today. Participants at the State of Maritime Safety roundtable debated the importance of […]
Seafarer unions within the Nautilus Federation are conducting a survey of their members in the expectation that there will soon be a review of the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification, and Watchkeeping for […]
Depleted seafood catches and the need to feed North Korea’s growing population have encouraged illegal fishing in Japanese waters. As coastguards go all out to enforce boundaries, collisions between patrol vessels and fishing trawlers are inevitable. […]
There have been 119 reported incidents of piracy and armed robbery this year compared to 156 incidents in the same time period in 2018, according to the International Maritime Bureau Piracy Reporting Centre (IMB PRC) […]
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