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New Seafarer Welfare and Wellbeing App Launched
February 1, 2022 https://www.maritimeprofessional.com/news/seafarer-welfare-wellbeing-lau...

International maritime network Stella Maris has teamed up with tech start-up FrontM to develop a new crew collaboration and wellbeing platform and super-app designed to give seafarers and fishers across the world quick access to Stella Maris's global chaplaincy directory, media content and faith resources.

Protest planned as purpose-built cattle ship Al Kuwait sails towards Timaru port
Yashas Srinivasa Feb 02 2022 https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/127663086/protest-planned-as-...

Working Together in Safety: The key to shipping’s future success
Grahaeme Henderson 01 Feb 2022 https://lloydslist.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/LL1139660/Working-To...

The Together in Safety coalition’s core objective is to save seafarers’ lives, while delivering improved business efficiency and commercial effectiveness, and is fundamental to safeguarding shipping’s future success

Drop-off in labour standards reporting from flag states
Sam Chambers February 1, 2022 https://splash247.com/drop-off-in-labour-standards-reporting-from-flag-s...

The annual Shipping Industry Flag State Performance Table from the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has identified reporting on seafarer wellbeing as a “casualty of the pandemic”.

Ship captain who rescued a crashed plane from Hong Kong’s harbour, towed a container ship backwards in the Taiwan Strait and greeted Queen Elizabeth in Tuvalu
Kate Whitehead 2 Feb, 2022 https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/3165424/ship-captai...

Drop-off in labour standards reporting mars strong overall performance from Flag States, ICS assessment shows
01/02/2022 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/drop-off-in-labour-standards-report...

The annual Shipping Industry Flag State Performance Table, from the International Chamber of Shipping, has identified reporting on seafarer wellbeing as a “casualty of the pandemic,” following its publication this week.

China’s first dual-fuel powered 210,000-ton bulk freight delivered
31/01/2022 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/chinas-first-dual-fuel-powered-2100...

Cargo ship Julietta D is drifting southwards, 18-strong crew were rescued
January 31, 2022 https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/01/cargo-ship-julietta-d-is-drifting-...

Seafarer lost overboard from Sarfo cargo ship off Turkey
Gary Dixon 31 Jan 2021 https://www.tradewindsnews.com/casualties/seafarer-lost-overboard-from-s...

Search for Russian national was hampered by bad weather in the area

A crew member is missing presumed dead after going overboard from a general cargo ship off Turkey.

Seafarers shouldn’t sign settlements
Adria Notari and Chevanev Charles January 29, 2022 https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/01/29/btcolumn-10/

So, let’s say that you have committed to life on the high seas and you have been working onboard a cruise ship for more than 20 years. As a member of the bar staff, it is your job to manually lift your stores from one deck to another.