Missing General Cargo Ship over 25 years of age in Black Sea.
A General Cargo vessel, flag - foreign, GRT- 3009t, built in 1982, owned and managed by foreign shipping company completed loading of steel billets on 16.02. 2008 in one of the foreign ports in [...]
Piracy scourge affecting India’s merchandise trade
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Twenty seven-year-old Jasmeet Singh, third officer with a Norwegian merchant vessel cruising along the Horn of Africa en route to the Mediterranean sea, is a worried man. Satellite phone usage on-board is limited to senior officers like the captain and chief engineer.
But these are exceptional times. Besides his family, Singh has repeatedly called four of [...]
Shipping slowdown expected to cut deployment of seafarers
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“For seafarers, they [IMO] can see a little bit [of a downturn] in the first quarter, but they would recover in the third quarter,” Labor Secretary Marianito D. Roque told reporters at the sidelines of the department’s 75th year anniversary exhibit opening, without giving estimates. United Filipino Seafarers president Nelson P. Ramirez said in a [...]
New inspection regime to start on 1 January 2009
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Norway is enforcing International Labour Organisation Convention No. 178 - the Labour Inspection (Seafarers) Convention. DNV will conduct these inspections in accordance with requirements set by the Norwegian flag authority.
The Norwegian flag authority, represented by the Norwegian Maritime Directorate (NMD), has directed all its recognised organisations to start inspecting ships as from the beginning of [...]
Crew shortage — a distress signal for shipping
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Reports have it that Gateway Terminals India Pvt Ltd (GTI), the APM Terminals-Concor joint venture that owns and operates a modern container terminal at Jawaharlal Nehru port, recently announced the launching of its Talent Development Centre on its campus.
Equipped with state-of-the-art training facility, the training centre, the reports suggest, is to provide hands-on experience of [...]
Reduced Deck Manning for foreign going Bulk Carriers less than 30,000 GRT engaged in international trading - Regarding Extension.
1. This Directorate after careful consideration extends validity of D.G. Shipping Order No.3, Dated 8th May 2008 by six months (till 07th May 2009).
2. The contents and effect of D.G.Shipping Order No. 3 of 2008, except [...]
Protests against piracy, detention of seamen
Lack of response from government authorities towards increasing incidents of piracy attacks and criminalization of Indian seamen have found expressions last week when concerned individuals and unions went to the streets at multiple locations across the country.
Chennai witnessed a flag march on Sunday, (October 5), protesting against detention of two mariners in [...]
Indian crew on Jordanian ship recruited illegally?
MUMBAI: The 10 Indians aboard the hijacked Jordanian vessel MV Victoria may have been recruited illegally. As negotiations continued for the release of the crew aboard the vessel, a top Shipping official on Thursday said details of the Indian workers haven’t been received.
The ship was last reported as being traced to Murgane, [...]
Shipping world in piracy crisis call to IMO and UN
The shipping world today made a crisis call to the (London-based) United Nations’ International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the United Nations (in New York) requesting real and immediate action against brazen acts of piracy, kidnapping and armed robbery, carried out with increasing frequency against ships in the Gulf of Aden, by pirates based in Somalia.
The [...]
Making the transition to Maritime Labour Convention compliance
DNV is helping ship owners and operators to make a smooth transition to compliance with the new standards for the living and working conditions of seafarers, which are expected to enter into force as early as in 2011.
The International Labour Organisation has today released new guidelines for inspections of compliance with the requirements in the [...]
