The Russian Navy has stepped up its anti-piracy campaigns worldwide as attacks involving Russian crew have risen. Russian officials declared concern over the rising number of accidents involving Russian seafarers in 2019 and 2020. There […]
Russia’s Zvezda shipyard has begun construction of the first ‘Leader’-class nuclear icebreaker named Russia, one of the first of a fleet that Russia plans to build by 2035 in a bid to improve ship safety […]
On 16 July, 17 of the 29 crew on Russian fishing trawler Regul had tested positive for COVID-19 in South Korea. The ship had been quarantined outside Busan since late June, after three crew members […]
Global efforts to resolve the crew change crisis are being undermined by “unscrupulous shipowners”, Yury Sukhorukov, president of the Seafarers’ Union of Russia (SUR), told Safety at Sea (SAS). As many as 200,000 seafarers are […]
The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, or EMERCOM, wants to build a network of airports and helicopter pods alongside the country’s northern coast to develop a more effective air ambulance service in the Arctic. EMERCOM […]
Russian consumer rights and protection watchdog Rospotrebnadzor has instructed its country’s shipping companies to provide more psychological support for seafarers whose mental well-being might be jeopardised due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Shipping companies must pay […]
A Russian seafarer union has expressed serious concerns over the safety of an estimated 10,000 Russian seafarers that are stranded on merchant ships all over the world due to COVID-19 international travel restrictions. “Every day […]
Russian federal space agency Roscosmos will deploy a network of satellites to improve satellite link communication and remote sensing in the Arctic along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) by December 2025. Four Express-RV satellites will […]
The State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian parliament, registered a draft bill on 12 April to establish a national marine pilot service. If signed into law, the Russian government claims it could significantly […]
The Russian government has been instructed to create a new system of controlling cargo flows in the Arctic and ensure ship safety in the region. President Vladimir Putin stipulated the decree titled ‘On the Basics […]
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