Fishermen rescued four Chinese seafarers whose ship, Su Jia Hang 6, had been drifting off Hengmen Pier in Zhejiang province, China, for four days. The ship, built in 2002, is a 4,342-dwt general cargo ship. […]
South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said that two locally owned ships have been detained in Indonesia for violating territorial waters. The ministry made the revelation on 15 January 2020 after CH Bella, a […]
The Russian government needs to revise the Polar Code and the other laws regulating marine pilots on the Northern Sea Route (NSR), said Anna Gornova, senior analyst of the state-owned Centre for Strategic Assessments and […]
No one in the US Navy (USN) can forget the night of 17 June 2017 when USS Fitzgerald, an Arleigh Burke-guided missile destroyer, was hit and spun around by the large Philippine-flagged cargo vessel, ACX Crystal, in open waters some 129 […]
Pirate abductions in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) went up by more than 50% in 2019, with a sharp rise in the fourth quarter, according to the annual report of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB). […]
China’s maritime search-and-rescue (SAR) centre said that its branch in Xiamen port went to the aid of CS Future, a 2010-built 34,000 dwt general cargo ship that had ran aground and suffered flooding in its […]
The Russian seaport authorities’ decision to authorise commercial ships to run with extremely small crew teams poses serious safety risks, Anatoly Leontiev, director of the Northern Expeditionary Rescue Team, said in a recent statement. There […]
Seafarers have been warned that they are at the forefront of the impact of the new IMO sulphur cap regulations that came into force in January 2020. The new limit is 0.5% of sulphur content within […]
Four Chinese fishermen have been rescued, three weeks after being abducted by West African pirates, following a co-ordinated effort by the Chinese government and the Nigerian police. The abduction happened off Gabon, in the Gulf […]
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) told SAS that it is assisting six seafarers who have been detained for alleged fuel smuggling in China since April 2019. The seafarers, comprising of five Myanmarese and one […]
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