Crew communications are widely accepted as an important element of seafarer welfare provision and vessel operators are now prioritising onboard systems to enable crew to keep in touch with home. The crisis in Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic have highlighted the vital need for internet access and contact with home, while seafarer surveys regularly identify connectivity as a key factor in onboard happiness,...
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As EU celebrates 30 years of Natura 2000, NGOs call for these areas to be actually ‘protected’ and for an EU-wide trawl ban in them
As EU celebrates 30 years of Natura 2000, NGOs call for these areas to be actually ‘protected’ and for an EU-wide trawl ban in them
Despite a six-fold increase of the Natura 2000 surface at sea in the last 20 years, most threatened marine habitats and species remain in poor conservation status
Strasbourg – As the EU celebrates the 30th anniversary of Natura 2000, NGOs highlight EU countries’ lax implementation of EU nature laws and permissiveness towards widespread destructive fishing, resulting...
NGOs Welcome Initial Steps But Demand Greater Urgency On Reducing Underwater Noise Pollution and its effect On Marine Life
NGOs Welcome Initial Steps But Demand Greater Urgency On Reducing Underwater Noise Pollution and its effect On Marine Life
London, 21 January 2022:- As a meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction (SDC 8) closed today in London, the Clean Arctic Alliance welcomed the meeting’s recognition that the non-mandatory nature of the current eight-year-old IMO guidelines on underwater noise pollution from ships is a key barrier to their...
Update: Sea-Watch airborne operations in Mediterranean highlight lack of assistance from EU
Update: Sea-Watch airborne operations in Mediterranean highlight lack of assistance from EU
London. UK. Recent rescue operations carried out in the central Mediterranean reinforce the fatal consequences of European member States’ failure to assist migrants and refugees, according to German NGO Sea-Watch.
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Save the Children and Haldor Topsoe help children in Mali fight the impacts of climate change
Save the Children and Haldor Topsoe help children in Mali fight the impacts of climate change
Copenhagen, November 20, 2021
- Topsoe and Save the Children will through education protect 18.000 children of Mali from the consequences of climate change. The project is called The Green School Project.
- Topsoe will back the partnership with 1 million DKK per year for the next three years. Half of the amount will go to the children in Mali and the other half goes to Save...
GORDON FOOT – Awarded the 2021 Merchant Navy Medal for Meritorious Services
GORDON FOOT – Awarded the 2021 Merchant Navy Medal for Meritorious Services
Gordon Foot MA MSc FNI FIMarEST FCMI FILM FIIRSM
Mr Gordon Foot, has been awarded with the 2021 State Award for services to maritime career promotion which includes his work as an ambassador for Maritime UK as part of the ‘Inspiring the Future’ schools outreach program and in mentoring, championing women at sea and acting as a voice for those seafarers affected by the...
Two workers die while scrapping cruise ship in Turkey
Two workers die while scrapping cruise ship in Turkey
Yet another fatal accident recently took place at the ship recycling yards of Aliağa, Turkey. On 12 July, Yılmaz Demir (55 years old) and Oğuz Taşkın (30 years old) were onboard the cruise ship CARNIVAL INSPIRATION when they were suddenly caught by flames. Yılmaz died on the spot, whilst Oğuz succumbed due to severe burns three days later at the nearby hospital. The exact circumstances...
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/07/27/two-workers-die-while-scrapping-cruise-ship-in-turkey/
Iridium Announces Operation Arctic Lynx
Iridium Announces Operation Arctic Lynx
More than 20 international organizations are involved in Arctic-focused communications exercises demonstrating the scope, quality and range of satellite capabilities supporting governments and NGOs in the polar regions
MCLEAN, VA., June 10, 2021 – Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) today announced Operation Arctic Lynx (OAL), a series of partnership-driven field exercises deploying Iridium® and Iridium Connected® technologies and involving more than...
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/06/10/iridium-announces-operation-arctic-lynx/
InterManager vows to source vaccinations for seafarers
InterManager vows to source vaccinations for seafarers
Frustrated by the lack of progress and slow pace of international efforts, InterManager has vowed to work separately to obtain much-needed Covid-19 vaccines to protect the world’s more than one and a half million seafarers and thereby keep international trade routes open.
InterManager President Mark O’Neil declared: “Global organisations have talked their way round in circles and still we are no...
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/04/27/intermanager-vows-to-source-vaccinations-for-seafarers/