Seafarers
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Asia
Plight of Malaviya Seven crew continues as auctioneer withdraws ship from sale
A solitary lowball bid for a detained OSV in Aberdeen yesterday saw an auctioneer cancel the ship’s sale, in the…
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Contributions
A more effective and meaningful response to seafarer abandonment
Carolyn Graham, a PhD student from the Seafarers’ International Research Centre at Cardiff University, wades into our campaign, highlighting the…
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Contributions
Quit Weining
Kate Adamson, the founder of Futurenautics, draws parallels between Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and shipping’s rotten apples. Hollywood is having…
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Operations
Intertanko and Intercargo refuse to condemn crew abandonment
Two of the world’s leading shipowning organisations have refused to condemn crew abandonment. Contacted last week in preparation for the…
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Middle East
Serial crew abandonment offender Varun banned from UAE waters
On Tuesday IMO secretary general Kitack Lim used the Splash crew abandonment campaign as a platform to call for greater…
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Operations
RightShip takes on ILO’s abandoned ship database
In a potentially huge breakthrough in the fight against crew abandonment, RightShip, the third party ship vetting service, has just…
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Operations
Salvation for stranded seafarers
No one is more exposed to the daily hardships and horrors of abandoned crews than the world’s leading shipping charities…
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Operations
Insurers refuse to cut ties with crew abandonment offenders
A key part of Splash’s crew abandonment campaign has been to engage as many different sectors of shipping as possible…
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Contributions
Abandonment issue gives shipmanagers a chance to shed ‘spiv’ image
The announcement by the eight big shipmanagers that they propose not to do business with owners who have a history…
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Europe
IMO boss says shipping has a ‘human duty’ to stamp out crew abandonment
The secretary-general of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has spoken of shipping’s “human duty” to ensure crew abandonment is kicked…
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Europe
Nautilus International hits out at ‘modern slavery’ in British waters
Shipping trade union Nautilus International has called on the British government to stamp out maritime modern slavery. The organisation has…
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Operations
World’s top shipmanagers pledge not to do business with owners who have abandoned crews
The world’s largest international third party shipmanagers with one notable exception – Executive Ship Management – have today pledged not…
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Americas
Quebec police use helicopter in new search for Amazoneborg crewman
Quebec police on Friday deployed a helicopter in their continuing efforts to find a missing merchant seaman. The 23-year-old man,…
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Americas
Quebec police consider sending scuba divers back out to look for missing crewman
Quebec’s provincial police in Trois-Rivieres say it is possible scuba teams will go back into the water to try again…
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Americas
Canadian authorities still assessing case of crewman missing from Royal Wagenborg ship
Canadian authorities are still looking into the weekend disappearance of a crewman from a ship that was docked in Trois-Rivieres,…
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Greater China
Seafarer dies onboard Shih Wei bulker at Bunbury Port
A Chinese seafarer died yesterday onboard the 2010-built bulker while it was at Bunbury Port in Western Australia. The 23-year…
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Asia
GOL Offshore staff owed 11 months back pay
Bust GOL Offshore owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in salaries to staff both ashore and at sea. With the…
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Americas
Crewman airlifted from tanker offshore New York after being injured in fall
An injured crewman has been safely airlifted by helicopter from a tanker off New York, according to The Associated Press.…
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Europe
Scottish court rules in favour of selling controversial Indian OSV
A sheriff in Scotland has ruled in favour of selling an Indian OSV to pay back hundreds of thousands of…
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Tech
Malware spreading fast through the merchant fleet
A survey of 2,500 seafarers has revealed that 40% of officers have sailed on a vessel, which has become infected…
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