Management & Crewing

A warning issued in May over members of the Abu Sayyaf group looking to kidnap crew from ships in waters in the southern Philippines and East Malaysia has been repeated.

In his two years since moving up to become ceo of Inchcape Shipping Services, Frank Olsen has worked to sharpen the company’s focus on the traditional business and values of ship agency.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) is calling on all ships to sound their horns again at 12 noon on 8 July, the day before a summit meeting on crew change on 9 July led by the UK government.

Two webinars around last Thursday’s Day of the Seafarer drew attention to the misery of some 400,000 stranded seafarers who cannot return home to their families or, conversely, sign on for new employment.

With 25 June marking the annual IMO ‘Day of the Seafarer’ Intercargo has again highlighted the plight of seafarers stranded on their vessels and says its fortunate there have not been fatal accidents at sea.

Winners of the 13th edition of Seatrade Maritime Awards Asia were unveiled in an inaugural online celebration.

The ongoing crew change crisis was top of the agenda for International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) chairman Esben Poulsson in his keynote remarks at the opening of the Informa Markets Digital Maritime Week.