Coronavirus
- Asia
Singapore widens seafarer vaccination campaign
Singapore is widening its vaccination programme for seafarers calling at the key Asian port city. According to port agency GAC,…
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Bjørn Højgaard goes on the offensive in ongoing crew change crisis, calls for ports boycott
Bjørn Højgaard, CEO of Hong Kong shipmanagement giant Anglo-Eastern Univan Group, has gone on the attack, determined to highlight who…
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Not enough has changed with crew rotations
Ian Boyd from GAC Group gives readers an update on where the industry stands today in its fight to carry…
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If seafarers are key workers, why aren’t they being treated like them?
Monica Lambrou-Whiting, senior claims manager at West P&I, writes for Splash today. The scale of the problem is colossal. Around…
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Singapore to provide jabs to select number of crew
Singapore, one of the world’s most active port cities, will be rolling out a limited vaccination programme for non-resident foreign…
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Denmark starts offering vaccines to seafarers
The Danish government has just announced that it will start offering vaccines for seafarers calling Danish ports or transiting Danish…
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InterManager members double onboard oxygen provision after life-threatening incidents
Shipmanagers have pledged to go above and beyond international maritime regulatory requirements in their onboard provision of medical oxygen –…
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Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, Venezuela and Latvia reported as hardest countries for crews to secure vaccines
The Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, Venezuela and Latvia have been identified by top shipmanagers as the areas with the largest challenge…
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New BIMCO/ICS seafarer workforce report warns of serious potential officer shortage
Launched today, the new Seafarer Workforce Report from BIMCO and the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) warns that the industry…
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Nine shipmanagers hit with Chinese crew change bans following spike in vessels arriving with Covid-hit crews
Nine shipmanagers have been handed crew change bans by the Ministry of Transport in Beijing after a series of ships…
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Mumbai trade union claims China is banning Indian seafarers from entering the country
The government in India as well as international shipmanagers contacted by Splash have sought to play down claims by a…
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World Health Organization puts seafarers in priority vaccine category
IMO secretary-general Kitack Lim has welcomed the World Health Organization’s decision to name seafarers as one of the groups of…
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Belgium steps up its seafarer vaccination campaign
Belgium is stepping up its seafarer vaccination programme. The European nation, already one of the world’s most proactive states to…
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Crew change crisis goes from bad to worse
The crew change crisis is worsening once again with thousands more workers at sea working beyond their contracted times. At…
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Cyprus to vaccinate 40,000 seafarers
Cyprus has announced it will vaccinate 40,000 seafarers. The Cyprus shipping deputy ministry will provide Covid-19 vaccinations to all seafarers…
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Etihad Airlines comes under fire over $1,500 surcharge for returning Filipino seafarers
Abu Dhabi-headquartered Etihad Airlines has come under fire for its decision to add a $1,500 surcharge for Filipinos heading home.…
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China comes in for particular criticism for its failure to repatriate bodies of dead crew
China is coming in for particular criticism as more and more cases emerge of dead seafarers and the impossibility of…
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Asian ports refuse entry to Covid-hit Evergreen ship with dead captain onboard
Nearly two months since the death of an Italian captain onboard Evergreen’s 5,090 teu and his family are still unable…
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Brazil requires foreign seafarers to quarantine to contain new Covid variants
Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency, Anvisa, recommended to the government last week that foreign seafarers entering the country lose their…
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Nationwide seafarer vaccination programme launches in India
India’s Maritime Association of Shipowners Shipmanagers and Agents (MASSA) on Monday said it will launch a nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive…
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