The Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA) and the Baltic Exchange Asia have agreed to deepen their collaboration on cross-promotion of events for the maritime and shipping industry.

Bimco and the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) have published the first industry standard on in-water cleaning of ships in order to prevent transfer of invasive species to local marine environments.

The Liberian Registry has become the first ship registry to sign onto the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change.

Elizabeth Jackson (CMO & SVP of Strategy at KVH) shares her thoughts on how the Internet of Things (IoT) will disrupt the established business models of the maritime industry in the future.

The establishment of a global network of crew change hubs would help alleviate the humanitarian crisis seafarers face at present, according to the Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ).

The Philippines has ended its temporary ban on international crew change for seafarers from vessels which had called at a list of 36 nations.

Infographic from Information Fusion Centre (IFC) summarising sea robberies and attempted incidents in the eastbound lane of the Singapore Strait in January this year (up to 29 January).

ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre (ISC) has issued an alert over three boardings of vessels this week in the eastbound lane of the Singapore Strait.

Ocean Network Express (ONE) said that around 15% of its fleet of containerships made extra calls last year to conduct crew changes.

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and a slump in shipbuilding contracting resulted in Wartsila’s marine businesses seeing a 23% decline in new orders in 2020 across the three business segments it operates in.