Product Tanker of STOLT, named as APAL –imo number 9719240, UK flag was attacked near the coast of YEMEN by armed pirates. Vessel was having armed guard team and the attack was successfully repulsed. As per the information given by the vessel, two armed speed boats approached the vessel. As Security guards fired to warn […]
As we are aware that crew change in India is happening for more than 2 weeks, shipping owners have shown great disappointment over the ‘Being too expensive’. As per the data released by them it costs around $90k to $180K for a crew change. In local currency that is almost more than 7million Indian Rupees. […]
India Gov Gives Permission to Use Chartered Flights for Seafarers A good news coming for the Indian seafarers worldwide. Chartered flights have been given ok to go permission by the ministry of home affairs. Recently one of the manning companies asked for permission to use chartered lights to make a crew change in South Korea, […]
We recently published a news regarding Lexa Maersk, when they had medically evacuated a crew member on their ship. This was after he developed symptoms of fever. As per the news coming, ships is reaching on APM terminal in Rotterdam with 6 infected crew members which includes captain as well. Though there is no official […]
As per the news coming from the Brazil, that one crew member from MSC ship ‘Giselle’ was tested positive for COVID-19, after he complained of stomach pain. Later as a precaution he was asked to go for corona test, which came positive. Ship arrived on 8th of May into the port of Santos. But after […]
In an effort to bring the life to normalcy (as other countries relaxing the movement of people), Philippines government has eased the restrictions on the overseas travel for those who want to go outside the country for work. This is valid for both seafarers and other land based installations. Seafarers will be able to join […]
As news coming from various sources, a container ship named as BARBARA with IMO number 9437050 have 10 seafarers tested positive for covid-19. It is also known that none of them had any symptoms related to the virus. After the tests came, they tested positive for this deadly virus. As a precaution, ship has been […]