Japan’s ClassNK has advised shipowners to install Ballast Water Management Systems (BWMS) “well in advance” of 2022, which is the installation deadline based on the BWMS Convention for many of its registered ships.

South Korea has called on Iran to release a South Korean oil tanker seized in the Strait of Hormuz by Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, it was reported.

The Philippines has suspended crew change for vessels coming from 20 countries until 15 January 2021 in bid to stop the new strain of Covid-19 from entering the country.

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So, hands up who predicted at the start of the year that the biggest issue in shipping in 2020 would be crew change? It’s a fair presumption to say no-one.

Liberia finishes off 2020 as the world’s fastest growing flag state for the second year in a row.

Global shipping has most of the key fundamentals in place for its transformation in the years ahead. In fact, Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, DNV GL’s ceo – Maritime, goes further. He believes that the challenges of 2020 have tested international shipping to...

Shipping lines have complained that a new law proposed by India’s Shipping Ministry that pushes for greater transparency on ocean pricing amounts to “government interference”.

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.