Seafarers
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Americas
USCG airlifts stricken French seafarer from ship off Oregon
A crewman who suffered an apparent heart attack on board a cable-laying ship offshore Oregon was medevaced to safety by…
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Americas
Crew on Turkish ship have not been paid or returned home in two years
Three crew members remaining onboard a Turkish-owned general cargo vessel stuck in Brazil have not been paid in two years,…
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Regulatory
Australian plans to tinker with cabotage will decimate number of local seafarers
Plans by Australian prime minister Tony Abbott to relax cabotage laws could see the local seafaring workforce contract by more…
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Asia
Cambodians flee Chinese ship citing abuse
Four men returned to Cambodia on Sunday evening after escaping from a Chinese ship docked in the Philippines and contacting…
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Operations
Seafarers increasingly stressed over port calls
A just released crewing survey shows the stress levels seafarers encounter when making port calls. Crewtoo, the online social network…
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Operations
‘Locked in hatches on a starvation diet’: ITF unearths another shocking case of seafarer abuse in Australia
A foreign crew in Australia’s Mackay port has been denied basic rights such as access to food and has been…
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Dry Cargo
Special forces deployed as seafarer runs amok, threatening to kill crew and torch ship
Portuguese maritime police stormed a Liberian flagged general cargo ship yesterday after a sailor of Turkish origin ran amok, brandishing…
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Europe
One seafarer dead and two injured in mooring accident at Russian port
A Chinese seafarer has died on Friday and two others were injured onboard bulk carrier TTM Dragon (55,947dwt, built 2010),…
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Americas
USCG helicopter takes ailing containership crewman to hospital ashore
A crew member on a containership was medevaced from his vessel offshore North Carolina after experiencing apparent appendicitis. US Coast…
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Contributions
Demographic debate
Three shipmanagers discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese seafarers. What are the best characteristics of Chinese crews? The…
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Americas
USCG suspends search for missing crewman from containership
US Coast Guard officials on Wednesday night suspended their search along a stretch of the Atlantic coast for a member…
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Operations
Turkish seafarer awaits deportation after jumping ship in Australia
A Turkish seafarer was caught and detained by police last week after he failed to return from shore leave at…
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Americas
USCG airlift seafarer with suspected heart-attack from Wilhelmsen car carrier
US Coast Guard (USCG) personnel on Thursday night airlifted a suspected heart-attack victim from a car carrier off the North Carolina…
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Europe
Quarantined tanker gets all-clear after seafarer dies of infectious disease
Port authorities have given the all-clear to a tanker quarantined in Spain after its chef died from an unidentified “infectious…
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Europe
Seafarer dead from unknown ‘infectious disease’ onboard product tanker
A seafarer has died of an unidentified “infectious, viral disease” onboard a product tanker currently under quarantine at El Ferrol,…
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Contributions
Sea stress
Simon Doughty, the CEO of Wallem Group, shares his thoughts on the Sailors’ Society’s Wellness at Sea program. Wallem is…
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Contributions
What it takes mentally to ably steer a ship from point A to point B
Turloch Mooney reports from Hong Kong’s Wah Kwong headquarters on the results of a pilot training program to address mental…
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Asia
Malaysian Bulk Carriers vessel evacuated, one seafarer dead
Kuala Kumpur: A Malaysian Bulk Carriers bulk carrier, MV Alam Manis (55,652 dwt, built 2007) was evacuated at sea yesterday due…
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Americas
Former Norbulk chief mate gets jail for illegal waste discharging off Florida
San Francisco: The former chief mate of a vessel that illegally discharged waste into the sea off Florida last year…
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Operations
Filipino seafarer missing in Lyttelton Harbour presumed dead
Christchurch: The search continued in Lyttelton Harbour today after a 52-year-old seafarer fell overboard containership Madinah (4,258 teu, built 2010)…
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