A week after a Chinese supervisor was charged with the torture killing of 20year old sailor on the Lu Huang Yuan 118, recent updates include three more arrests of recruiting agency bosses over the death of the Indonesian crew member.
The three suspects are charged on the grounds of human trafficking law, as well as the fact that they put crew members at risk, on purpose, said Awi Setiyono, national police spokesperson.
The incidents aboard the ships have highlighted the gross exploitation,...
A new study – the BLUE Insight Low Carbon Shipping Fuels & Energy Guide 2020 – has revealed that more than 40 organisations are vying for a share of the $1.4 trillion* low carbon shipping fuels and energy market. However, many remain in their infancy and primed for investment from institutional, private equity and private finance. The Guide has been produced by business and strategic advisory consultancy BLUE Insight, in partnership with leading classification society Bureau Veritas.
The Guide...
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is launching a focused inspection campaign targeting cargo securing arrangements on container ships visiting Australian ports.
This inspection campaign is being initiated in response to several serious incidents involving shipping containers lost overboard recently.
Incidents like the losses of 81 containers off Newcastle by the YM Efficiency in 2018, 50 containers off Wollongong by the APL England in May and three containers from the Navios Unite...
Titan LNG is thrilled to announce that Titan LNG, one of the leading suppliers of LNG to the marine and industrial markets in Europe, has been granted €11.000.000 funding from the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF); the EU’s grant scheme supporting transport infrastructure, connectivity and the switch to greener fuels for transport.
Our project Bio2Bunker develops and expands a (Bio)-LNG (BLNG) bunkering supply chain by introducing three bunker barges in Zeebrugge, Rotterdam, and Lübeck. The...
Today marks one month since the ITF told the world’s governments that ‘Enough is Enough’ and that the global union federation and our affiliates would be assisting the world’s seafarers in enforcing their right to stop working, get off and be repatriated to their homes and families, following completion of their contracts.
Today also marks two months since the ITF and our partners in the Joint Negotiating Group of maritime employers (IMEC, IMMAJ, KSA and Evergreen; jointly known as JNG) gave...
In the Norwegian North Sea, Sleipnir successfully removed the 8100 mT Jotun-B jacket for client Vår Energi. The platform was installed in 1998 by Heerema’s Thialf, who returned to the Jotun Field last year to remove the topsides and conductors – demonstrating the circularity of Heerema’s involvement in the lifecycle of these now retiring platforms.
What we put in, we take out.
For the jacket removal, Sleipnir arrived at the Jotun Field located 200 km west of Stavanger on Friday, July 11, and...
A bright summer’s day at the North Sea led the crew onboard the supply ship ‘Island Clipper’ to go all out for a sunbathing picture.
Photos and videos posted show Finnish crew member Jussi Nurminen relaxing in a foldable chair that was perched atop the bulb of the Norwegian vessel. This viral photograph, taken at the Oseberg field west of the sea off Bergen, was posted by the captain, Stig Silden on his Instagram, titled: sunbathing in the North Sea.
The bulb, however, a part of the ship’s hull...
The unprecedented and devastating effects of the pandemic continue to harm the travel and tourism sector as another cruise line shuts down business after failing to find emergency funding.
The UK based Cruise & Maritime Voyages announced that it had “ceased trading with immediate effect”. This decision has followed its previous announcement saying that CMV hoped to secure finances with its investor VGO Capital management, which probably did not occur, making it the third cruise line to have been...
The wonder of the Seas, which will supposedly be the largest cruise ship ever built, has experienced a delay in its delivery due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The ship, operated by Royal Caribbean, was presumed to be delivered in 2021. Currently, it is under construction in Saint-Nazaire, France. The ship was to reportedly be based out of Shanghai, China.
With a capacity of 6,000 passengers, alongside 2,200 crewmembers, would be the largest cruise ship ever after it’s construction ends.
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The Indian Directorate General of Shipping, also known as DG Shipping, announced on Friday that seafarers of foreign nations would be allowed to sign off in Indian ports. They would then be given the option to obtain flights to their host countries.
However, this decision would only be applicable to all ships, excluding cruise vessels from the list.
The option of flights to ferry the seafarers out of the country would be given via ‘Vande Bharat’ flights, commercial flights and chartered flights.
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