In a tragic incident which happened on Bulk Carrier DS SOFIE BULKER, Chief Officer Erdem Bulat Died while he was inspecting the cargo holds. As per the reports, in a regular job where the holds were being inspected, he went for checking the condition for cleanliness, and to have lost the balance while walking on […]
Update: IMO Website can be accessed now. The shipping major of France- CMA CGM and international regulatory body for maritime- IMO -have been hit by major cyber attacks in past days. On one hand the CMA CGM booking site is out of service, IMO main portal is down too. Both the organization have been reported to […]
The pandemic covid 19 has turned the world into possibilities of the ‘New Normal’ that has found its way into the new age vocabulary. The seafarers are the most impacted as they have been working round the clock keeping the supply chain robust. Everyone thought of expressing gratitude to the essential service providers but somewhere […]
A Happy day for lot of seafarers today. Executive Ship Management flew a chartered direct flight from Mumbai to Singapore for carrying out crew change. This was the maiden chartered arrangement for the company. Indigo Flight took off 8:30 in the morning from Mumbai international Airport to shipping hub port in the South Asia. As […]
We have found a list of chartered flights that are going to be flying all over the world for crew change. NOTE: Chartered flights are becoming very popular among the ship managers to do the crew change in various favorite destinations like DOHA, COLOMBO and now may Hong Kong As well. Recently there was a […]
This original story was published by ISWAN, South Asia Excruciating 70 days in captivity: An Indian seafarer, Mr. Chaudhary, who was recently released from the captivity of Nigerian pirates shared his traumatic and horrific ordeal with ISWAN South Asia (India). ISWAN India contacted the seafarer and offered humanitarian support on behalf of the programme. During […]
15th June deadline was set by various shipping unions for crew change all over the world. IMO also rolled out their protocol regarding special status to crew members who are working at sea. Idea was to give them key worker status and let the member states to follow what IMO said, thus facilitating smooth crew […]
As we know that Cochin has become a favorite spot for the crew change when it comes to Indian seafarers. Reasons are many but its location and ‘NO FEE’ for anchorage makes it favorable for carrying out crew changes. As per the official figures port has 3 tugs (Tugs are vessels which are used for […]
There has been an accident on Maersk Ship- Laura Maersk, in which a crew member has suffered serious burn injury and was air lifted by the US Coast Guard for urgent medical assistance. Vessel suffered explosion somewhere on 4th June and disabled the ship completely. As per the news we have got, the explosion happened […]