Chemical tanker RYOSHIN MARU collided with Chinese general cargo ship XIN HAI 99 at around 0200 Tokyo time Aug 20 some 2 nm off Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, southeast Honshu. Ships were sailing in opposite directions, tanker bow struck c

Seafarers Happiness Index (SHI) Quarter 2 2022 results are a measure of the happiness level of seafarers amidst the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic and the geopolitics of Russia and Ukraine. Yet this quarter registers a welcome rise in op

Published today, the new P4G-Getting to Zero Coalition report Shippings energy transition: strategic opportunities in Indonesia explores the potential for Indonesia to accelerate and to benefit from international maritime decarbonization. T

Member Authorities of the Tokyo and the Paris Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) on Port State Control will launch a joint Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on STCW. The campaign on STCW aims to confirm that: thenumberofseafarersservingo

On August 8, China Classification Society issued certificate of type approval for the worlds first Marine BDS receiver equipment with single BDS function. The equipment meets the requirements of new IMO rules and relevant functions and inte

Few shipping companies have started to prepare for the EUs proposed inclusion of maritime transportation in the Emissions Trading System, whose initial decarbonization effects are expected to be minimal due to high gas prices. Once the new

China is Valenciaports main trading partner and represents 15% of the total container traffic handled through the docks of the port precinct. We are the gateway to Spain for foreign trade with China, with which we maintain a close relations

The current Administration of the Panama Maritime Authority responsible for the Ship Registry, began its management in July 2019, when the situation of the Registry, according to Clarkson Research, presented a growth in negative numbers (-2

The Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) of the UN backed Black Sea Grain Initiative has issued the Procedures for Merchant Vessels to facilitate the safe export of foodstuffs and fertilizers from the ports of Odessa, Chornomorsk and Yuzhny (Piv

Statement of the Officers of the Special Tripartite Committeeon ensuring a safe working environment on board vessels where seafarers can live without fear of discrimination and physical or mental abuse. The Officers of the Special Tripartit

We have been advised by our trusted local correspondents, AA Multiprime, that the port of Barranquilla, Colombia,is currently suffering a critical increase of vegetal residues and sediments (Tarullain Spanish) along the navigable channel of

MPA chief executive Quah Ley Hoon will step down on Sep 5. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO Senior Appointment Changes Ms Quah Ley Hoon, currently the Chief Executive of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), will be stepping down on 5 Sep

ISTANBUL, Aug 3 (Reuters) - The first grain ship to leave a Ukrainian port in wartime passed through the Bosphorus Strait on Wednesday en route to Lebanon for a delivery that foreign powers hope will be the first of many to help ease a glob

IMOSecretary-General Kitack Lim has welcomed thedeparture fromOdesaof the first commercial ship to leave theportundertheUnited Nations supportedBlack Sea GrainInitiativeto establish a humanitarian maritime corridor for the safe passage of s

On 21 June 2022 the UK government imposed further trade restrictions against Russia under The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 14) Regulations 2022 which amend The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (the Regulations)