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.

Singapore is to allow crew changes under “special circumstances” recognising seafarers play a critical role in the global supply chain.

The Panama Canal is set to operate with a reduced workforce for at least 14 days, and there has been a surge in booking cancellations primarily from the cruise sector.

Human Rights at Sea (HRAS) has highlighted the plight of seafarers unable to disembark at the end of their contracts because of crew change prohibitions in many ports.

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...

The UK Chamber of Shipping has confirmed the election of John Denholm and Graham Westgarth as its next president and vice-president respectively.

As concerns over the inability to make crew changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic grow crewing specialist Danica chief Henrik Jensen has urged caution saying that seafarers are at less risk if they stay on board the vessel.