As per the recent news that is coming from the maritime sector, a Filipino crew member on cruise ship Oasis of the seas, died of the corona virus. He was admitted to the hospital after being diagnosed with corona infection. Name of the crew member is Carlos Baluran, from Philippines. 3 crew members of the […]
More than 3000 seafarers from cruise liners have been quarantined in Germany and will be tested for possible covid-19 infection. Cruise lines have been greatly affected by the corona outbreak. With international lockdown, it is becoming very difficult to send them back home in various countries of the world. Cruise industry has come completely to […]
As per the news which is coming from Spain, they have recognized seafarers as the key workers. As per the IMO recommendations to all the nations to allow crew for sign on and sign off. Now Spain has enabled crew change operations with country own procedure. Seafarers need to present their necessary document like CDC […]
Several containers were blown away from ship OOCL UNITED KINGDOM by strong wind force in Belgium port of Zeebrugge Belgium. As per the port authority, empty containers were being offloaded during morning on 2nd May 2020. A sudden gush wind started to flow. This led few containers being thrown away in water and some fell […]
Drugs Found in Cargo Hold of Cargo Ship in Hamburg Bulk Carrier named BUDVA, arrested by German police after search operation found large quantity of drugs in cargo hold of a bulk carrier ship. The ship was coming from Brasil via morocco. Right now all 23 crew are being investigated, though 1 crew has been […]
As per the news statistics that are issued by the International Chamber of Shipping and IMEC, around 150000 seafarers needs a crew change. Which means, they need to sign off and go home, this is surely a very large number. As per the statistics issued by them out these 150000 seafarers, roughly: 40000 are from […]
There has been an incident of cargo ship collision with bridge in Japan. The cargo ship named AMATERASU-IMO Number 9157600 collided with Koasn Ohashi Bridge pillar at Ube port. It is reported that the ship has sustained damages to the structure. While there are no damages to the bridge as far as we know. Though […]
In a sad event that took place near West Africa, Nigerian coast, pirates managed to board a product tanker named Vemahope. As per the reports that are coming, around 10 seamen were taken by the pirates (kidnapped) from the ship. The ship was enroute from Lagos to Cameron. The AIS of the ship is believed […]
The container shipping giant, Maersk have stepped up the cargo shipping to another level. They have started a weekly service of cargo train from Xi’an, China to Izmit, Turkey. This is part of Maersk Intercontinental Rail (ICR) network. Earlier they have started this kind of service from china to Europe. This service comes after customer […]