Norwegian e-navigation specialist, Navtor, is expanding into fleet analytics with the acquisition of US software and ship performance company, Tres Solutions.

Completely inactive all through 2020 due to the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, India’s first cruise ship Angriya is being currently used at the southern Sri Lankan port of Galle as a floating hotel to quarantine seafarers who are either leaving or...

Digital learning provider Mintra is expanding its maritime business with the acquisition of Safebridge for EUR5.95m.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has called on owners of vessels stranded for many months off China to follow the lead of MSC on crew change.

Ship manager Thome Group is making its first step towards having “cashless vessels” working with ShipMoney for a digital payment solution for crew wages.

The Panama Canal has announced that it will modify its transit reservation fees and other maritime services (OMS) in order to manage its capacity in the face of growing demand.

Speaking yesterday at the launch of a DNV GL white paper on ship safety in the context of digitalisation and decarbonisation, the classification society’s maritime ceo Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen expressed shock that nearly 70% of IMO member states have...

The global crew change crisis could result in a shortage of seafarers if exhausted crew choose to leave the shipping industry rather than risk another long period trapped at sea, warned the Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ).

Singapore has crossed the 100,000 mark for crew change carried out at the port during the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, according to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA).

Ambitious plans for a team of experienced blue-water rowers to cross the 2,300 mile Arctic route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were unveiled in a Maritime London webinar this week.