Airlines can inspire fresh approach to seafarer safety

Unions are ramping up the rhetoric in their threats to boycott shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean where the...

Recruitment and training of seafarers will probably not satisfy future demand for officers, leading to a worsening officer shortage, according...

The SaveOurSeafarers (SOS) campaign has been honoured with a Seatrade Award for its significant contribution in the fight against...

Building on its predecessor, Project HORIZON which identified serious concerns with the 6/6 shift pattern where 50% of participants...

Somali pirates abandoned a Greek LPG carrier after crew locked themselves away in the vessel’s citadel. The 9,108-cbm Gas...

It is the improvement of conditions on land, linked to widescale efforts of governments, rather than the use of...

The Swedish shipping company Wallenius is now using security guards armed with automatic weapons onboard its shipping vessels. The...

Another small tanker has been hijacked in the South China Sea, but it is unclear at this stage if...