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...

The Philippines has suspended crew change for vessels coming from 20 countries until 15 January 2021 in bid to stop the new strain of Covid-19 from entering the country.

So, hands up who predicted at the start of the year that the biggest issue in shipping in 2020 would be crew change? It’s a fair presumption to say no-one.

Crew change has been one of the biggest challenges of 2020 Julia Anastasiou explained to the audience at Crew Connect Global how OSM Crew Management has dealt with the situation.

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...

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.

Digitalisation should be seen as a means of augmenting seafarers’ capabilities and supporting mental health, rather than a convenient way of replacing them, as some have suggested.

Responses to the quarterly Seafarers Happiness Index survey showed a loss of optimism as the three-month period progressed and fears of not getting home due to the second wave of COVID-19 grew.