This week saw InterManager launch a league table to celebrate success in crew changes, and recently Seatrade Maritime News talked with Thome Group ceo Olav Nortun about how it is managing to get some changeovers done on a small scale.

Shipyard group Sembcorp Marine (Sembmarine) has seen its workforce in Singapore cut to just 850 from 20,000 due to a restrictions on foreign workers from leaving dormitories to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

One of the UK’s last blue-chip ship operating companies, P&O Ferries, has announced that the continued downturn in its business due to the pandemic will oblige it to make redundant up to 1,100 employees, the same number as it furloughed under the...

Container lines would appear to have largely firmed up blank sailings in their Q2 schedules with just six additional voyages voided over the last week.

Amidst all the gloom over crew changes and seafarers stranded on vessels as their contracts come to an end InterManager has decided to celebrate the successes that some ship managers have achieved even if often only a small scale.

The current COVID-19 pandemic represents an opportunity to change the way we work in the future, according to Olav Nortun, ceo of Thome Group.

Ship agency GAC Singapore has suspended cash to Master payments due to a shortage of physical notes.

Work on the further development and upgrade of Port of Piraeus, the Greece’s largest harbour, to the benefit of the country and China is proceeding smoothly as planned despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Greek Shipping and Island Policy Minister...

The government of Cyprus has adopted with a formal process to facilitate crew changes in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In an attempt to resolve the crew change crisis the industry and unions have come together in a 12-step solution providing a roadmap for governments to get seafarers out of COVID-19 lockdown.