Tag: life onboard

When a vessel changes ownership and/or manager, a considerable time is necessary before the new crew and management are fully familiar with the vessel, West P&I Club says. 

Improving crew welfare onboard is not only a necessity for the shipping industry to show it cares for its seafarers, but also a contributing factor to ship safety, experts agreed during a webinar organized on the occasion of the Day of the Seafarer, last month.

Columbia Shipmanagement (CSM) has announced a partnership with Berlin-based Fintech Kadmos to automate and digitalize its seafarers’ salary payouts. 

A new animation video by Seafarers' International Research Centre (SIRC), Cardiff University, aims to highlight the consequences of poor accommodation for seafarers and for the recruitment and retention of high quality personnel in the cargo sector.

A near-miss management system in shipping offers one of the most valuable instruments for improving safety onboard seagoing ships. But according to a paper published in 2020, having surveyed 250 participants, near-miss reporting can be inadequate, and several barriers limit appropriate near-miss reporting.

Feeling satisfied with our lives in the contemporary fast-paced way of life is constantly a moving target. How can we get what we want if we do not even have the time to think about what we want? The thing is it is very simple to get what we want. It is just not easy.

Raising the level of awareness across the public of the importance of shipping to the world will be a key step forward for the sector to improve its seafarers’ wellbeing and resolve many challenges surrounding it, panelists agreed at the 2022 Crew Welfare Week Virtual Forum that took place in June.

The West P&I Club has noted a number of recent container fire incidents related to containers which were declared as miscellaneous items but actually contained charcoal/carbon. This is a commodity liable to spontaneous combustion. 

Ipsos was commissioned by the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) to conduct research into the mental health of seafarers and, specifically, suicide among seafarers.

During a discussion at the third day of the 2022 Crew Welfare Week, panelists focused on the issues of crew welfare. The discussion focused on the vital importance of seafarers for the global trade, identified current problems in their welfare, and provided their key message.