Individual crew changes are costing up to an additional $2,000, doubling the price since last year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Danish-managed crewing specialist Danica said. The crewing agency said that the figure resulted from analysing a combination of fully allocated additional costs an
Togo-flagged bunkering vessel Stelios K has been hijacked while en route to Lagos, the UK-based maritime security firm Dryad Global said on Tuesday. According to the latest information from today, the attackers remain on board and local authorities continue to negotiate the release of the vessel and
German container shipping company Hapag-Lloyd reported that two of its vessels were facing delays amid COVID-19 infection cases among the crew. The two ships include CSL Manhattan, a 2005-built Panamax containership commercially controlled by Hapag, and Tsingtao Express, a 2007-built Post-Panamax co
Ørsted and North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop the next generation offshore wind workforce in the U.S. The partnership will create a national agreement designed to transition U.S. union construction workers into the offshore wind
A seafarer has been evacuated after suffering serious injuries on board its vessel, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said.
A total of 41 Indian seafarers have been stranded on two ships for months unable to dock in Chinese ports and carry out crew changes amid heated tensions between the governments of China and Australia. The seafarers got in the middle of a debate between the two countries exacerbated by the calls fro
The Covid-19 pandemic hit Australia’s already declining oil and gas workforce hard, causing a loss of over 28,000 jobs this year, Rystad Energy says.
Five crew members have been kidnapped by pirates from a Ghana-flagged vessel in another incident in the Gulf of Guinea.
MacArtney Group has appointed Phil Middleton as new managing director for its UK operations.
The interim COVID arrangements which have permitted seafarers to serve longer than 11 months on-board ships will end from February 28, 2021, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said. Under the Maritime Labour Convention, the normal maximum period that a seafarer can serve aboard a vessel
DOF Subsea has appointed Martin Lundberg as acting chief financial officer (CFO) with responsibility for the corporate finance functions in the DOF Subsea Group.
UK-based marine energy company Marine Power Systems is seeking an experienced candidate to join its team in a senior business development role.
The UK government has revealed its ambition to create 2 million green jobs by 2030 and has launched a Green Jobs Taskforce to help reach that goal as part of the government’s plan to build back greener and achieve net zero emissions by 2050. According to the official press release, the government ha
Delfin Midstream, the company proposing an FLNG project in the Gulf of Mexico, has added LNG experience to its leadership.
