Middle East & Africa

As I write this I’ve just finished moderating my final conference session of the year at Seatrade Maritime Middle East Virtual. With myself in Singapore, speakers in Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong, some bleary-eyed colleagues in the UK...

A landmark ruling from UN agency International Labour Organisation (ILO) Committee of Experts has found governments are in breach of seafarers’ rights and failed to comply with several provisions of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) during the...

The Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kenya to enable reciprocal recognition of STCW certificates for seafarers for their nationals.

The problems of attracting young people to take up a career as seafarers had been long debated, even before the Covid-19 pandemic and the crew change crisis left hundred of thousands of seafarers stranded onboard vessels.

Global ports need to ready themselves to further collaborate on establishing an eco-system of interoperability with increased use of digitalisation as the world moves into a ‘new normal’, according to a panel discussion at Seatrade Maritime Middle...

A first-of-a-kind climate finance report has been disclosed by the 15 bank signatories of the Poseidon Principles, showing that the average decarbonisation trajectory fell short of IMO’s initial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions target.

Over the past few months, there has been much said and written about crew welfare and how it has been handled during the pandemic and longer-term.

The Covid-19 pandemic has seen an acceleration of digitalisation across all sectors including maritime and shipping, but in the rush to digitalise the business case should not be forgotten.

The year 2020 marked by the Covid-19 pandemic has turbocharged the need for digitalisation and virtualisation in shipping, regardless of the size and type of ships, according to a panel discussion at Seatrade Maritime Middle East Virtual 2020.

Practical solutions that can be implemented today and provide a pathway to low and zero carbon fuels were the focus of panellists discussing shipping’s clean energy transition.