Recently a video of a bulk carrier- damaging a railway track went viral. Upon investigation it was found that the railway bridge which is in panama canal was completely destroyed by the ship and rail movement is no longer possible. It is reported that incident happened on 23rd June. Though there is no news of […]
As we are aware that Dubai International Airport is closed now for more than 3 months. But news is coming various sources across social media that Airport will be open from July 7 for International Passengers including crew changes as well. All the travelers have to show a recent corona test report, which should have […]
With covid-19 situation, all the maritime training institute in India are shut down. This has forced seafarers not be able to renew their certificates and COCs. In order to provide relaxation to the seafarers, DG shipping have extended validity of all the documents who are expiring before 31st December 2020 to 31st December 2021. (i) […]
To what seems like a response to the advisory issued my International Maritime Organization, for easing restrictions on crew change and expediting the same, MARINA is planning to open more major ports. For the time being only Manila is opened for crew change. But Subic, Batangas and Davao are some of the major ports that […]
An Indian Second Engineer went missing from a crude oil tanker ship operated by Dynacom Tankers Management Pvt Ltd (DTM). Sambit Majumder was sailing on MT Serengeti and ship was en-route to South Korea from Singapore. As per the information available he had dinner with crew on Tuesday evening and went to his cabin, but […]
Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) has detained a merchant ship due to dropping anchor at an allocation which is not permitted by them. Both Captain and Chief Engineer of Vessel MT Marquessa have been detained and amount of $23,000 (RM 100,000) imposed as fine to the vessel or 2 years Jail term after conviction to […]
A ship was recently detained in one of the ports of Australia. And the deficiency was that several crew members’ contracts have expired and they have not been repatriated to their home land. Well though this brings to the notice of the whole world that seafarers have gone way beyond their tenure, but not many […]
Shipping hub Singapore has revised the requirements for the crew change in their latest circular. Just for the information of the readers, 6000+ crew changes have been carried out at this port city in the lockdown phase. Following are some of the changes in the requirements: Now ship can sail off after port clearances and […]