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Maersk Sued Over 2021 Cargo Loss
Mike Schuler October 23, 2023 https://gcaptain.com/maersk-sued-over-2021-cargo-loss/

Danish shipping line Maersk is facing a $5.8 million lawsuit over the loss of containers from the Maersk Eindhoven in 2021.

The lawsuit was filed last by the insurer for retail giant Target, Starr Indemnity & Liability Company, in the Southern District of New York. It seeks damages for the loss of 57 containers carrying Target goods.

One dead, Filipino seafarer rescued in cargo ships’ North Sea collision
Agence France-Presse / October 24, 2023 https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1850445/one-dead-filipino-seafarer-rescued...

It's a long queue that could have repercussions on our daily lives. For the past few weeks, hundreds of container ships have been clogging up in front of one of the essential links in international trade. The Panama Canal, a gigantic corridor some 80 kilometers long, has been taken over by merchant ships.

Big 3 Korean shipbuilders likely to log quarterly profits in 11 years
23/10/2023 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/big-3-korean-shipbuilders-likely-to...

South Korea’s three major shipbuilders are likely to log quarterly surplus for the July-September period and remain in the black for years, thanks to rises in newbuild ship prices, banking sources said.

Finding it hard to talk
October 24, 2023 https://splash247.com/finding-it-hard-to-talk/

Steven Jones, founder of the Seafarers Happiness Index, on the worrying trend among seafarers who are finding it hard to properly talk with each other.

DMW updates list of risk areas for seafarers
Gerard Naval - October 23, 2023 https://malaya.com.ph/news_news/dmw-updates-list-of-risk-areas-for-seafa...

THE Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) is advising employers of Filipino seafarers to observe payment of appropriate wages and benefits if their operations involve areas that are classified as “war-like” and “high risk” waters.

Seafarer’s non-deployment due to replacement is a breach of contract
Atty. Dennis Gorecho October 24, 2023 https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/10/24/seafarers-non-deployment-due-to...

Failure to deploy a seafarer due to replacement by another seafarer is considered a breach of contract entitling him to damages.

287 passengers, crew rescued as vessel runs aground in Cebu
John Rey Saavedra October 23, 2023 https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1212319

Crossing Cultures: How China and Europe mastered the sea
Paul Hackett 22/10/2023 https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/10/22/crossing-cultures-how-china-...

Shore leave: a seafarer’s right
ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO | October 18,2023 https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/534301/shore-leave-a-seafarers-right

The employment relationship with the employer does not stop but continues to be in force even when the seafarer is on shore leave (Susana Sy vs. PTC, G.R. No. 191740, February 11, 2013).