Tag: COVID-19

MPA of Singapore informed that crew with recent travel history to India within the last 14 days, are not allowed to entry the country.

The new coronavirus (COVID-19) has cost the lives of more than 3,072,000 while confirmed cases exceed 144,000,000.

Singapore-based shipping company is working with Vanuatu authorities to trace the contacts of a dead crew member found washed ashore and infected with COVID-19.

The pandemic has underlined the importance of developing common requirements for the implementation of remote survey approach as an acceptable form of intervention in some circumstances to overcome the challenges of physical attendance surveys, according to IACS.

UNCTAD called regulators to achieve greater transparency in container shipping, during a period of record rates and challenging performance by container shipping. 

Recent action by the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) led to a successful crew change for a fatigued tanker captain in Tranmere port.

International Transport Intermediaries Club (ITIC) highlights the importance of checking the results of crew COVID-19 tests.

Amid an increasing discussion on crew mental health, a new study by International SOS Foundation and Affinity Health at Work revealed that 40% of seafarers and offshore workers surveyed experienced suicidal thoughts on rotation some or all the time.

Times of economic crisis have historically often flushed out frauds and other unscrupulous dealings which may not otherwise have been discovered in normal economic conditions, note experts from Norton Rose Fulbright.

Nautilus International and the UK Chamber of Shipping urged Maritime Minister Robert Courts MP to support establishing the UK as an international seafarer vaccination hub.