The second episode is online of a YouTube series documenting life onboard a US-flagged containership stranded mid-repair in a Shanghai shipyard during on the current lockdown.

Three quarters of the seafarers stranded in the Ukraine have been safely evacuated, but 500 remain onboard vessels in the war-torn country.

The Seafarers Happiness Index report for the first quarter 2022 recorded happiness levels dropping across all categories to hit an eight-year low.

The UK’s RMT union has accused P&O Ferries of attempting to cut the pay of agency seafarers, but the ferry company claims the issue was a misunderstanding.

The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia, Bahri, has confirmed the death of one crew member and the serious injury to another in an incident on board chemical tanker NCC SAFA.

Leaders from over 50 transport unions rallied outside DP World’s London offices, calling for P&O Ferries CEO Peter Hebblethwaite to be sacked.

P&O Ferries sacking of 800 long-time seafaring employees by email without notice or consultation, has plunged the DP World subsidiary into an operational crisis. It could get worse, as maritime union leaders head for DP World’s UK headquarters in...

The indiscriminate shelling of merchant ships and their seafarers in ports and offshore Ukraine constitute war crimes, according to Human Rights at Sea (HRAS).

Oman has become the 100th nation, and the first member of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), to ratify the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006, designed to ensure the right of all seafarers to decent employment.

Call for urgent action to protect 1,000 crew trapped in Ukraine ports from the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).