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Newport Maritime Services (NMS), a wholly owned subsidiary of UK-based Newport Shipping, has launched a digital platform to streamline the ship repair and retrofit. The scheme is designed to benefit shipowners, managers, and Newport’s ten partner...
The Philippines list of countries from which it temporarily bans international crew change from if the vessel has visited in the last 14 days has grown to 33 from an initial 20.
With the digital revolution the humble telephone increasingly just gathers dust on people’s desks, but insurers ITIC say it is a useful tool against in combating cyber-crime.
Six months after expressing grave concerns about the worsening piracy crisis in the Gulf of Guinea, the Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC) has again expressed “regret and frustration” over the “ineffectiveness of the international community to address...
Shipping Australia is very concerned about the ongoing crisis caused by a lack of crew changes. Hundreds of thousands of people are trapped at sea and hundreds of thousands of people are waiting (without pay) to go to sea. It is a humanitarian...
Bjorn Hojgaard, CEO of Anglo-Eastern Univan Group, and Chairman of the Hong Kong Shipowners’ Association talks about the biggest issue that has faced the shipping industry in 2020 – the crew change crisis.
Singapore expects to conduct 500 to 600 crew changes per day in the coming months, with over 50,000 seafarers having signed on or off in the port since 27 March.