Four UN organisations have issued a joint statement calling for global collaboration to overcome the crew change crisis that at times during the COVID-19 pandemic has left more than 400,00 seafarers stranded at sea.
A Turkish-owned, Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier was hit by a bomb off the coast of Odessa, Ukraine, on 24 February 2022.
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), representing 80% of the world’s merchant fleet, has warned of supply chain disruption should the free movement of Ukrainian and Russian seafarers be impeded.
Two Russian commercial cargo ships have been targeted by Ukrainian missiles in the Sea of Azov, several Russian news agencies reported, citing the country’s Federal Security Service’s (FSB) border department for the Krasnodar Territory as saying.
A misjudgment during navigation was the probable cause of the grounding of the 20,568 TEU Mumbai Maersk off the German island of Wangerooge earlier this month, an investigation has found.
IOG is experiencing a further delay in the start-up of its Saturn Banks Project – Phase 1 due to stormy weather conditions.
A fire broke out onboard an Italian-flagged roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) passenger ship off the Greek Ereikoussa island in the early morning hours of 18 February 2022.
Norwegian offshore safety regulator has granted Repsol consent for life extension for a field located in the North Sea off Norway.
The production at 22 ship recycling facilities has been stopped at Izmir Aliaga district in Turkey amid the workforce strike for better employment conditions in the last six days.
ConocoPhillips has received consent from a regulator to use one of Prosafe’s semi-submersible units at Norway’s first producing field.
OMV has received consent from Norway’s offshore safety regulator for exploration drilling of a pilot hole in the Norwegian Sea.
Russia’s icebreaker operator Rosatomflot, part of the Rosatom Group, has signed an agreement to create a unified platform for digital services of the Northern Sea Route.
Mumbai Maersk, a 20,568 TEU containership that ran aground outside Bremerhaven, Germany, has been successfully refloated.
A Denmark-flagged ultra large containership (ULCV) has run aground some six kilometers north of Wangerooge, a German island, while approaching the Weser estuary.
