The Global Maritime Club Summit – in association with Seatrade Maritime – will make its debut at this June’s Posidonia International Shipping Exhibition.

The maritime workforce of the future will require expanded skillsets in order to ensure safe and efficient operations.

China is loosening quarantine restrictions overseas for Chinese national crews returning home at the end of their contracts.

Seafaring has sometimes been described as a “frontier activity” with all sorts of hazards that are not normally encountered in shore-side employment.

New technologies and regulations have the potential to improve safety and seafarer’s lives, but the industry must keep an eye on crew workloads.

The UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) Port State Control Inspection of P&O Ferries’ Pride of Kent found 47 deficiencies including 13 grounds for detention.

The UK Government confirmed that ferries regularly sailing in and out of UK ports will need to pay seafarers the equivalent of UK minimum wage, £9.50 ($11.70) per hour.

P&O Ferries’ Pride of Kent passed its Port State Control re-re-re-inspection in the UK on May 9.

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.