Synergy Marine is to take over the technical management of Maersk Tankers as the Danish owner looks to transform into a services company.

The Neptune Indicator suggests the crew change crisis has stabilised, despite stricter crew change requirements and reports of seafarer shortages.

Columbia Shipmanagement (CSM) has set up a joint venture in Saudi Arabia with Spectrum Group which will see it taking over the management of 35 offshore units and rigs.

Wah Kwong Ship Management has two bulk carriers to its fleet, and expects further growth this year.

Norwegian shipowner Seatrans is the latest to go down the joint venture route for ship management forming a new company with Columbia Ship Management (CSM).

Ship manager association InterManager is to work privately in sourcing Covid-19 vaccines for its members seafarers frustrated that global efforts for an international programme are yet to bear fruit.

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.

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

On Tuesday 327 companies and organisations publicly committed to the Neptune Declaration of Crew Change and Seafarer Welfare in a pledge to resolve the crisis that has left hundreds of thousands of seafarers stranded on vessels when their...