March 26th, 20200Several major Indian ports, including those operated by Adani Ports, the country's largest private port operator, have declared force majeure as the country started a three-week lockdown in an attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus. India's shipping ministry has issued a letter allowing ports to consider the coronavirus...
March 23rd, 20200Shipping companies looking at sending their ships for demo in south Asia are likely to face severe disruption thanks to the spread of coronavirus with only Bangladesh fully open for business at the moment. Currently, both Alang in India and Gadani in Pakistan have put a hold on beaching vessels until at least March 31. The one caveat...
March 23rd, 20200Vessels calling Indian ports need to be aware of a raft of new coronavirus-related rules introduced by the directorate general of shipping. Masters must submit a declaration to the health authorities three days before arrival on the state of the crew prior to arrival. Vessels arriving from ports of infected countries identified for...
March 17th, 20200The International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN) has addressed the risks posed to Indian seafarers who sign up to unlicensed crewing agencies by releasing a new video. The video entitled Unregistered crewing agencies: A risk to Indian seafarers has been released as part of ISWAN’s campaign against unregistered...
March 12th, 20200Vessels bound for demolition at the world’s largest shipbreaking destination, Alang, are set for a coronavirus curveball. Shipbroker Clarkson Platou Hellas warned in a weekly report that Indian authorities have this week held a meeting internally with various government departments and shipping agents to discuss the outbreak of the...
February 20th, 20200Container Corporation of India (Concor), the nation’s top container train operator, is rapidly diversifying. Having entered the domestic feeder shipping space a year ago with a pair of 700 teu ships, Concor is about to embark on its first international shipment. Concor will operate a service from Visakhapatnam to Chittagong in...
February 14th, 20205Mercator reported another quarter mired in red ink yesterday with more and more creditors calling debts in. Once India’s third largest shipowner, Mercator is now severely under pressure, with ICICI Bank the latest financial institution to chase up debts. ICICI has asked the National Company Law Tribunal to initiate insolvency...
February 14th, 20200Puducherry-based Marine Officers’ Training Academy (MOTA) has been barred from business as one of the worst offenders in India’s sprawling fake seafarer certificates scandal. The director general of shipping has revoked the academy’s licence, the Hindu Business Line reports, for for flouting training rules, including issuing fake...
January 31st, 20201India’s Directorate-General of Shipping has declared a one-off amnesty scheme for 3,762 seafarers it has found obtained fake certificates from five training institutes without completing the necessary training. The news was described in the Hindu Business Line newspaper as “the biggest fake certificate scam yet” in the country’s...
January 29th, 20200Shearwater GeoServices, the Norwegian seismic JV between GC Rieber and Rasmussengruppen, has been awarded a 3D broadband marine seismic acquisition contract by Reliance Industries in India's Bay of Bengal. The project is scheduled to commence in the second quarter of 2020 and covers 1,500 sq. km of block KG-UDWHP-2018/1 in the...
