The Izmail Seafarers Centre in Ukraine has been hit in a Russian drone attack on the Port of Izmail on Wednesday.

The handymax bulk carrier, TQ Samsun, left Odessa on Sunday morning and is the last ship – at least for the moment – to carry Ukraine grain exports across the Black Sea, through the Bosphorus, and then onto heavily reliant world markets.

Ahead of the Day of the Seafarer on Sunday 25 June charity Stella Maris says there is an urgent need to continue supporting Ukrainian seafarers as conflict rages on.

A total of 165 ships with 3.7m tonnes of agricultural products on board have left Ukraine under a deal brokered by the UN and Turkey to unblock Ukrainian sea ports, the Ukrainian Infrastructure Ministry said, 18 September.

As the global food crisis deepens and millions of tonnes of Ukraine’s grain remain blocked in the Black Sea, EU Transport Commissioner Adina Ioana Vălean has declared that all transport modes will be considered in setting up new Solidarity Lanes...

The Russian invasion of the Ukraine is blocking key agribulk exports from the Black Sea region driving up global food prices.

Some 21 Filipino seafarers stranded on bulker S-Breeze in the Ukraine arrived home on Tuesday and crew for five more vessels were set to be repatriated.