Management & Crewing

With growing concerns over the difficulties faced by shipowners in making crew changes given restrictions to limit the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak Wilhelmsen Ship Management has explained the approach that it is taking.

The pilot could barely contain his astonishment as he recounted the exchange with the master as he reached the bridge of the ship he had just boarded.

Sixty finalists for the Seatrade Maritime Awards Asia 2020 have convinced an independent panel of judges of their well-deserving achievements over the past year

The Philippines has started to undergo a key audit by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) to finally determine whether the country’s standards of seafarer training meet those of the STCW code

Let’s offer our support, loud and clear, to Captain Andrzej Lasota, late of the bulker UBC Savannah, currently incarcerated in a Mexican prison and a victim of the most disgraceful behaviour by the authorities of that country.

Concerns over hefty disability pay outs to Filipino seafarers with pre-existing medical conditions were flagged up by P&I clubs this week.

Nineteen seafarers are reported to have been kidnapped from the VLCC Nave Constellation 100 nm south of Bonny Island, Nigeria.