Leading port authorities from several parts of the world have called for collaboration and the sharing of best practices in a declaration that promised to do everything possible to ensure that port operations remain open to trade, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. The declaration, released in...
Harry Hirst, Managing Partner and Master Mariner, Singapore for Ince & Incisive Law LLC, has written for Maritime Executive on whether COLREGS re still fit for purpose. He noted that many believed that in the not so distant future, the fundamental changes in the way in which ships would be operated...
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There were 27 tanker vessels off the coast of Southern California by the afternoon of Thursday April 23rd, according to the US Coast Guard. Oil traders have been struggling to find means to store oil products. Conventional storage facilities in the US have filled up due to abundant supply and a...
Scotland-based airline Logan Air has been awarded charter deals to fly offshore vessel workers from Poland and Latvia to the UK North Sea area, alleviating the difficulties faced by some operators in implementing crew changeovers. Logan Air said the charters – it did not name the companies – were...
Denmark-based shipping company DFDS has laid up 12 of its 50 ferries due to reduced services amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Last month the company suspended two routes, Copenhagen to Oslo and Amsterdam to Newcastle, these being mainly passenger-based operations. DFDS said in its preliminary quarterly...
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Fred Olsen Cruise Lines has extended its pause in sailings beyond May 2020, and has not given a planned date that it will return to service. Fred Olsen Cruise Lines managing director Peter Deer said that “at this stage I am not able to confirm a date when we can expect to resume normal operations,…
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The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has set up a page on its website for Covid-19 advice, available at: http://www.imo.org/en/MediaCentre/HotTopics/Pages/Coronavirus.aspx It contains a list of Circular Letters issued by Member states with Covid-19 related notifications. received from IMO Member States (updated weekly): http://www.imo.org/en/MediaCentre/HotTopics/Pages/COVID-19-Member-States-Communications.aspx The update indicates that some states have issued guidance on extension of...
Skuld has noted that on April 9th Saudi Arabia declared a two-week ceasefire in Yemen. The ceasefire had been proposed by the United Nations in an effort to slow the advance of Covid-19. On April 17th the first case of Covid-19 case was detected in Yemen. As a result, the Yemeni authorities have...
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The Dutch court in The Hague has ruled that cruise liner Royal Caribbean was wrongly fined €992,000 for an assumed violation of rules and regulation related to working conditions. In 2014 the Inspectorate for working conditions levied the fine on the basis of the Labour Act for aliens. Inspectors...
International Maritime Organization (IMO) Secretary-General Kitack Lim has written to all Member States urging them to recognize all seafarers as “key workers”. He asked that they remove any barriers to their documentation and also that they lift national travel restrictions so that they can get...