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The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) rescued 19 crew members from a bitumen tanker that sank off the Ratnagiri coast, on September 16.

With an aim to showcase the status of the ship recycling industry in Alang, the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways along with Gujarat Maritime Board organized an International Conference on Green Ship Recycling. 

Maersk India has inaugurated its brand new warehouse in Bhiwandi on the outskirts of Mumbai. Spread over 250,000 sq. ft., the new facility will be the company’s fifth warehouse inaugurated this year in India, taking the total footprint to over 2.1 million sq. ft., including the warehouses from the recently completed acquisition of LF Logistics.

Chennai Port has agreed to grant Indian seafarers shore leave, provided they adhere to basic protocols of undergoing dual vaccination and wearing masks.

To prevent workplace accidents and diseases, India’s Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals has decided to provide international chemical safety cards (ICSCs) to workers.

India and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) recognizing the certificates of competency in the voyages of seafarers from the two nations.

The Pakistani Navy responded to a distress call and helped in the rescue of Indian sailors after their commercial sailing vessel capsized.

Chairman and Managing Director of Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) Madhu S Nair informed said that India’s first indigenous hydrogen-fuelled electric vessel is likely to delivered by March-April 2023.

India announced that the existing Deep Water route will be replaced by a Traffic Separation Scheme and existing safety fairway on approaches to the Gulf of Kutch is also replaced with revised safety fairway, from 1st September 2022.

The Indian Government has directed all major ports to exempt all berth hiring and vessel-related charges being currently levied to the Ro-Pax and Passenger Ferries for the next six months with immediate effect.