The world’s fastest growing classification society, China Classification Society’s (CCS) bulk carrier fleet has grown by 13% in gross tonnage in the last year.

With the shift to issuing of seafarers’ certificates and documentation in electronic format, the Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) has issued some 123,676 electronic certificates.

The Australian authorities have banned the Aswan Shipping bulker Movers 3 from the country’s waters for 18 months after a two-month detention.

Classification societies will play a central role in the transformation of shipping over the next few decades, according to Bureau Veritas.

Fujairah has banned crew change from vessels arriving from India as more countries raise barriers to travellers from the country which experiencing a huge surge in Covid-19 cases.

Barry Parker gives the lowdown on ABS’s latest report plotting a course for shipping’s decarbonisation.

A new cluster of Covid-19 infection has been discovered on among seafarers on onboard a bunker tanker operating on Singapore port.

Ship and crew managers are bracing themselves continued, and possibly even bigger, challenges with crew change as new Covid-19 variants emerge, and infections spike in key seafaring nations.

Singapore is barring crew change for seafarers with recent travel to India following a huge spike of Covid-19 cases in the country.

Columnist Michael Grey questions whether seafarers will have an assurance of better treatment post pandemic.