DNV has developed an audit protocol to address challenges to crew health and well-being, and has instructed its safety management auditors to focus on seafarer health, work and living conditions in their 2021 audits.

Three armed robbery incidents were reported against ships underway in the Singapore Strait between April 8 and April 11 2021, and the criminals are still at large, according to the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed...

Crew change remains a top challenge in the industry according to the Singapore Shipping Association (SSA), and both industry and authorities are pushing for a global vaccination programme for seafarers.

Even though the Chilean Government has decreed an extension of the border closure until 30 April, with tighter restrictions, crew change will be allowed to continue.

Are you a budding mariner and think you can do a better of job of navigating the Suez Canal than the Master of the Ever Given?

The Singapore authorities will continue to extend the validity of STCW certificates on a case-by-case basis given the difficulties of renewal due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ever Given, the containership which ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal, is now afloat and back on the move.

The queue of vessels waiting to transit the blocked Suez Canal grows as efforts to refloat Ever Given continue.

Maritime group Wilhelmsen will invest up to $500m in renewables as part of a pivot to supporting decarbonisation and the energy transition.

The shipping industry is proactively looking for new fuels, given the tough challenge ahead to meet the International Maritime Organization (IMO)’s 2050 target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50% compared to 2008 levels.