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Vietnam asks for better sea dispute management, enhanced trade cooperation with China
Viet Nam News/Asia News Network / July 22, 2020 https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1310287/vietnam-asks-for-better-sea-disput...

Seafarer suicide statistics spotlighted as coronavirus curtails crew changes
Baibhav Mishra - July 6, 2020 https://seanews.co.uk/shipping/maritime-shipping/seafarer-suicide-statis...

Recent reports of seafarers stranded on cruise ships taking their own lives have highlighted the dearth of reliable information about suicides at sea.

Illegal salary deductions due to dubious promissory notes
ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO - July 21,2020 - https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/328295/illegal-salary-deductions-due-...

Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) must be vigilant against the execution of dubious promissory notes causing excessive deductions from their salaries.

Crewing costs soar as shipping’s spat with airlines leaves seafarers stranded
Michelle Wiese Bockmann 17 Jul 2020 https://lloydslist.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/LL1133126/Crewing-co...

Stranded On Ships: Seafarers In Virus Limbo
20 July 2020 https://theaseanpost.com/article/stranded-ships-seafarers-virus-limbo

Indian ship worker Tejasvi Duseja is desperate to go home after months stranded offshore by coronavirus border closures and lockdowns that have left more than 200,000 seafarers in limbo.

Crew killed by container on board of container ship, Norway
Erofey Schkvarkin July 21, 2020 http://www.maritimebulletin.net/2020/07/21/crew-killed-by-container-on-b...

13 crew kidnapped from tanker off Benin
Jason Jiang July 20, 2020 https://splash247.com/13-crew-kidnapped-from-tanker-off-benin/

The 2007-built 11,300 dwt chemical tanker Curacao Trader was attacked by pirates off the coast of Benin in West Africa on July 17.

Philippine Cargo Vessel Disabled After Fire
Philippine inter-island cargo vessel disabled after a fire Moreta Venture - Moreta Shipping Lines
07-20-2020 https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/brief-philippine-cargo-vessel...

India allows foreign seafarers to sign off at its ports
Sam Chambers 20 July 2020 https://splash247.com/india-allows-foreign-seafarers-to-sign-off-at-its-...

India’s directorate general of shipping ruled on Friday to allow foreign seafarers to sign off at Indian ports and then to take flights out of the country.

The ruling relates to cargo ships, not cruise vessels.

Cargo ship brings coronavirus case to Queensland as Premier mounts pressure on NSW over border checkpoint dispute
Rachel Riga, Owen Jacques and staff 20 July 2020

Queensland has recorded one new case of coronavirus overnight, as Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk mounts pressure on her New South Wales counterpart to consider moving border checkpoints further south.

Ms Palaszczuk said she would send a letter to the NSW Government today asking for the checkpoints to be moved to the Tweed River.