Come 1st July and you will be able to visit any of the European Union Country (EU Nations). Countries that are part of EU, does not have border restrictions, so one can go from Germany to France or Italy with single visa. Draft lists of countries whose citizen will be permitted to travel to Europe […]
Our ship was drifting near the UK coast, Falmouth (a coastal town in England) without any Voyage orders. Being able to be back home in time was difficult. Generally, it is quite difficult for seafarers to get back home and with these travel restrictions, it was quite impossible. We were aware of the VANDE BHARAT […]
As per the new figures coming from shipping world, around 80,000+ Filipino seafarers are stuck on ships waiting for the repatriation to take place. Though those on cruise lines managed to come back to the home country when ships started calling home ports to disembark the crew, but still lot of them are stuck. When […]
As per the latest circular which has been issued by the DGCA, international flights to remain shut in India till 15th July. These are the fresh guidelines by the prime body concerning the aviation in India. Also, circular says that international flights might fly on selected routes on case to case basis. This comes as […]
In India, crew changes in homeport started somewhere from 24th April. This move by the government helped a lot to the ships who were calling Indian ports. Also some ships altered their routes a little bit to reach Cochin Port Anchorage for crew changes. Though majority of seafarers are Indian, but some foreign nationalities to […]
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 […]