Collaboration between IMEC, ICS and ITF is helping to drive progress on key seafarer related issues, according to International Maritime Employers Council (IMEC) Chairman Belal Ahmed.

Addressing sexual assault and sexual harassment (SASH) in the maritime industry is essential for seafarer welfare and attracting new talent, on a national and international level.

Unpaid wages to abandoned seafarers over the past 20 years has topped $40m as 2022 became the worst year on record for seafarer abandonment.

The Mission to Seafarers’ annual review of its Seafarer Happiness Index branded 2022 as a year of recovery for seafarer wellbeing.

Talking to the chief executives of both Thome Group and OSM Maritime it was clear that size and the ability to grow further with that scale lay behind the announcement of the largest ship manager consolidation in recent years.

Ship managers Thome Group and OSM Group are to merge to achieve size and scale to meet the growing complexities of the business.

Su-Nav is a relatively new name to the world of third-party ship management but has a strong commitment to training for the future including having cadets on board all vessels it manages.

South Korea has introduced Covid testing and quarantine for crew coming from Chinese ports that want to disembark or take shore leave.

China has canceled the crew change measures against Covid-19 after downgrading Covid-19 management from Class A to Class B.