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Maritime piracy increases business costs in the Gulf of Guinea
Eromo Egbejule 28 Dec 2019 https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/maritime-piracy-increases-business-co...

The cost of maritime piracy in West Africa was more than $800m in 2017: Oceans Beyond Piracy

Start small to support seafarer mental health
December 27th, 2019 https://splash247.com/start-small-to-support-seafarer-mental-health/

Wendy Harvey and Mark Featherstone from Svitzer UK have some useful advice on developing mental health provisions.

Abandoned seamen yet to return home from Mozambique, 10 crew members are still stranded in the port of Pemba
MBARUKU MOHAMMED 27 December 2019 https://www.the-star.co.ke/counties/coast/2019-12-27-abandoned-seamen-ye...

Russian cargo ship ran aground in Marmara sea, Turkey UPDATE
STEPAN KOTCHERG December 26, 2019 https://maritimebulletin.net/2019/12/25/russian-cargo-ship-ran-aground-i...

Cargo ship heavily listed by cargo shift, sheltered in Keelung, Taiwan
Mikhail Voytenko December 27, 2019 https://maritimebulletin.net/2019/12/27/cargo-ship-heavily-listed-by-car...

Cargo ship collides into Istanbul coast, closing the Bosphorus strait
Gul Tuysuz, Jennifer Deaton and Bianca Britton, December 27, 2019 https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/27/europe/cargo-ship-runs-aground-istanb...

Istanbul (CNN)A cargo ship collided into the coast of Istanbul on Friday, forcing Turkish officials to temporarily suspend traffic through the Bosphorus strait.

NYK Line’s MarCoPay gets license to operate
December 27, 2019 https://www.bworldonline.com/nyk-lines-marcopay-gets-license-to-operate/

JAPANESE SHIPPING firm NYK Line’s e-money platform MarCoPay has secured a license to fully operate in time for its launch early next year, which it said will benefit over 200,000 Filipino seafarers.

Tanker in Singapore Strait boarded by pirates on Christmas Day, 6th incident in as many days
Malavika Menon Dec 26, 2019 https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/tanker-in-singapore-strait-boarde...

SINGAPORE - Six pirates stealthily boarded an oil tanker on Christmas Day but were soon spotted by the vessel’s chief engineer.

He triggered the alarm system and the pirates, who were unarmed, fled empty-handed.

How Cruise Ships Bring 1,200 Tons of Toxic Fumes to Brooklyn a Year
Dec. 26, 2019

Many ports — all along the coast of California, in parts of Europe, even in China — have found a solution to idling luxury liners. In New York, they’re still a problem.

On a chilly fall morning in Red Hook, Brooklyn, the Queen Mary 2, the luxury liner known for its opulent black-tie dinners and ballroom dances, docked under blue skies while a fleet of 50 or so taxis jostled for position on the wharf.

Master and a crew of Turkish freighter medevaced in unclear circumstances
STEPAN KOTCHERGA December 26, 2019 https://maritimebulletin.net/2019/12/26/master-and-a-crew-of-turkish-fre...