With the mutation of the Covid-19 virus and a new wave of travel restrictions crewing specialist Danica warns that the height of the crew change crisis in spring 2020 could be repeated.

The Panama Ship Registry hit a record 230.5m gt last year, across some 8,516 vessels, according to figures from IHS Markit.

Classification society DNV GL is dropping the GL brand name to become simply DNV.

The Philippines list of countries from which it temporarily bans international crew change from if the vessel has visited in the last 14 days has grown to 33 from an initial 20.

If you are looking for a defining image of 2020, it is hard to escape those appalling pictures of the ONE Apus entering Kobe harbour with the battered remains of her deck cargo, a few days before Christmas. It sort of summed up a year when so much...

The Great Eastern Shipping bulk carrier Jag Anand and its 23 Indian crew are finally be allowed to leave the Chinese port of Jingtang where they have been stranded with a cargo of Australian coal since June last year. However, while the Jag Anand...

The livestock carrier Barkly Pearl has been barred from Australian waters for two years after it was found sailing in the country’s waters with a hole in its hull.

Australian maritime unions have called on the country’s government act immediately to declare seafarers as “key workers”.

The Isle of Man Ship Registry (IOMSR) has appointed its first permanent representative in China in the person of Jonathan Kingdon, an experienced naval architect, newbuilding project manager and Mandarin speaker.

An Indian seafarer onboard the MSC bulker Anastasia, which has been thwarted in crew change plans since June 2020, attempted suicide in desperation over his inability to return home to his family in India.