Ship Operations

The crew change crisis that has developed with the COVID-19 pandemic will need more than just coordination of port and government authorities with shipowners and managers as there is a huge logistics issue of getting seafarers to the points of...

Verifavia Shipping has partnered with OSM Maritime Group to provide Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM) services, bringing the total number of vessels under IHM contract with Verifavia to more than 550.

Online maritime security platform Greywing is utilising its technology to try and provide a tool for managers and port authorities to facilitate crew changes given widespread restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Synergy Group chief Captain Rajesh Unni is calling for collective managed crew changes to tackle the “time bomb” of the crisis of relieving seafarers at the end of their contracts.

In a reversal of its previous ‘business as usual stance’ P&O Ferries has today announced that all its ferries travelling between the UK, Ireland and continental Europe will switch immediately to carrying only freight.

Immediately after India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a 21-day total lockdown of the nation on 24 March the country’s Directorate-General of Shipping (DGS) moved to impose a 14-day quarantine on shipping vessels arriving from any port in...