In this webinar, Seatrade Maritime News, in association with Maritime Strategies International and Holman Fenwick Willian (HFW) focus on key shipping segments; container ships, dry bulk and oil tankers. Whilst HFW examine the legal implications of...
![1024px-SARS-CoV-2_49534865371.jpg]( "1024px-SARS-CoV-2_49534865371.jpg")
Seven crew members onboard containership Gjertrud Maersk berthed at Ningbo have been sent to hospital after one tested positive for COVID-19 according to an official statement from China’s Ministry of Transport.
![DSCN4976.JPG]( "DSCN4976.JPG")
The crew change crisis that has developed with the COVID-19 pandemic will need more than just coordination of port and government authorities with shipowners and managers as there is a huge logistics issue of getting seafarers to the points of...
![PORT CORONEL-LR-.jpg]( "PORT CORONEL-LR-.jpg")
Chile’s Port Coronel, the third-largest port of the country, has installed two thermal cameras capable to measure the body temperature of people entering the terminal.
Online maritime security platform Greywing is utilising its technology to try and provide a tool for managers and port authorities to facilitate crew changes given widespread restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Singapore is to allow crew changes under “special circumstances” recognising seafarers play a critical role in the global supply chain.
Technology group Kongsberg is laying off around 400 employees on a temporary basis as the company struggles with lower level of activity amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
The Panama Canal is set to operate with a reduced workforce for at least 14 days, and there has been a surge in booking cancellations primarily from the cruise sector.
Synergy Group chief Captain Rajesh Unni is calling for collective managed crew changes to tackle the “time bomb” of the crisis of relieving seafarers at the end of their contracts.
