The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) has welcomed a move by Australia that it will be ending a temporary exemption for vessels that have had seafarers onboard for more than 11 months.

The unexpected role transhipment hubs have played in trying to solve the crew change crisis was highlighted by Maersk during in a Seatrade Maritime News webinar this week.

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.

Intercargo has hit out over charterers preventing crew changes on dry bulk vessels with seafarers from certain Southeast Asian nations treated as “toxic”.

Panama has facilitated more than 11,000 crews changes between 19 March and 28 October this year.

The International Maritime Employer’s Council (IMEC) and the International Transport Worker’s Federation (ITF) have opened up sizable quarantine and testing facilities in Manila to accommodate up to 300 seafarers, amid the coronavirus (Covid-19)...

Western Australia (WA) is looking at whether it can turn away vessels with COVID-19 cases onboard following four outbreaks on ships calling at its ports in the last three weeks.

Chile is to allow international crew change following IMO protocols, the first country in South America to do so.

The annual Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA) event has always offered a duality between domestic United States maritime matters, and the international shipping world, and this is no exception as the industry grapples with the issue of crew...