The crew change crisis that has developed with the COVID-19 pandemic will need more than just coordination of port and government authorities with shipowners and managers as there is a huge logistics issue of getting seafarers to the points of...

Chile’s Port Coronel, the third-largest port of the country, has installed two thermal cameras capable to measure the body temperature of people entering the terminal.

Technology group Kongsberg is laying off around 400 employees on a temporary basis as the company struggles with lower level of activity amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

The Panama Canal is set to operate with a reduced workforce for at least 14 days, and there has been a surge in booking cancellations primarily from the cruise sector.

Human Rights at Sea (HRAS) has highlighted the plight of seafarers unable to disembark at the end of their contracts because of crew change prohibitions in many ports.

Synergy Group chief Captain Rajesh Unni is calling for collective managed crew changes to tackle the “time bomb” of the crisis of relieving seafarers at the end of their contracts.

In a reversal of its previous ‘business as usual stance’ P&O Ferries has today announced that all its ferries travelling between the UK, Ireland and continental Europe will switch immediately to carrying only freight.

Container lines reduced vessel capacity in the Asia trades by some 23% between mid-January and mid-March this year as smaller vessels were deployed according Ocean Insights (OI).

With the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) around the world, governments and ports in Latin America are taking different measures to deal with the pandemic.

Immediately after India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a 21-day total lockdown of the nation on 24 March the country’s Directorate-General of Shipping (DGS) moved to impose a 14-day quarantine on shipping vessels arriving from any port in...