Singapore expects to conduct 500 to 600 crew changes per day in the coming months, with over 50,000 seafarers having signed on or off in the port since 27 March.

Intercargo has hit out over charterers preventing crew changes on dry bulk vessels with seafarers from certain Southeast Asian nations treated as “toxic”.

Panama has facilitated more than 11,000 crews changes between 19 March and 28 October this year.

An NYK operated car carrier Metis Leader has been arrested in Melbourne for breaching regulations over crew change.

Chile is to allow international crew change following IMO protocols, the first country in South America to do so.

China is set to allow 10 ports to resume foreign crew change operations with a new ‘circuit breaker’ mechanism to be implemented, according to an update by Bimco.

The shipping industry needs passenger flights in place and uniform standards for areas such health checks to make progress on clearing the crew change backlog, especially with the threat of a second Covid-19 wave, according Ocean Network Express ...

With the crew change crisis now affecting an estimated 800,000 seafarers the International Chamber Shipping warned a UN event a failure to resolve the situation could lead to a global trade logjam.

This Thursday, as the Secretary-General of the United Nations addresses the General Assembly in New York, there is a whole grim list of Covid-19 related issues that he cannot avoid. But few are so pressing as what has become known as the “Maritime...

Crew changes on ships at Vizhinjam port, on the southernmost tip of the Indian peninsula, have been stalled by the muscle power displayed by a local steamer agent, which has set up its own association to carve out a monopoly on the activity.