Welcoming a UN General Assembly resolution calling for seafarers to be designated as key workers IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim is urging that seafarers and maritime workers receive priority COVID-19 vaccination to allow
Confirming reports that have been coming in all year from shipowners, ship managers, crewing agencies and other sources, a just published report confirms that the cost of complying with COVID-19 restrictions have
Ship operators are being warned to expect higher crewing costs next year as pandemic measures and challenges in carrying out crew changes push prices higher. Henrik Jensen, managing director of Hamburg, Germany,
Dry bulk operators’ association INTERCARGO reports that it has learned that, in a number of instances, charterers in the dry bulk sector have been preventing much needed crew changes from taking place
“Life during COVID is hell,” is one response received in the most recent survey on Seafarers Happiness survey conducted by the Mission to Seafarers with the support of the Shipowners’ P&I Club
BIMCO says that, according to its Shanghai office, seven Chinese governmental bodies, including the Ministry of Transportation (MOT), last week released a notice last week announced that 10 Chinese ports will resume
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has updated its protocols for ensuring safe crew change during the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, IMO says, some 400,000 seafarers from across the globe are now stranded on
Some 400,000 seafarers from across the globe are now stranded on ships, continuing to work but unable to be relieved, in a deepening crew change crisis which threatens trade and maritime safety,
In a case that illustrates the ongoing impacts of the crew change crisis, the Hong Kong registered bulker Unison Jasper has now been banned from Australian waters ports for six months.. The
Crews on at least three ships in Australian waters have stopped working their ships following expiration of their contracts. The seafarers are bidding for repatriation as the crew change crisis caused by