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Shipping firms seek clarity on new IMO regulations to reduce sulphur emissions
04/10/2019 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/shipping-firms-seek-clarity-on-new-...

Uncertainty is continues to prevail across the shipping industry over the impending IMO regulations, to reduce the level of sulphur oxide emissions from ship’s exhaust, from January 1, 2020.

Shipping industry needs to show what it is doing on GHG emissions: USCG
4 October 2019 https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/news/americas/shipping-industry-needs-...

Forward thinking owners and industry players that act today on Greenhouse Gas emissions will make regulators recognise there progress and performance – that was the message from the US Coast Guard at the annual ABS North America Regional Committee.

We need a definite course correction to attract more women seafarers: Director General of Shipping
03/10/2019 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/we-need-a-definite-course-correctio...

What is the strategy to attract and promote more women in seafaring?

Crewman watching music videos before ship grounded
3 October 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-49911746

A crewman was watching music videos on his phone when he should have been monitoring his cargo ship's progress, investigators have said.

The officer of the watch did not spot until it was too late the MV Priscilla had moved from its planned route.

Investigators said he then put the boat on an alternative route that placed the ship in "imminent danger".

Stowaways threatened terrified cargo ship captain while chucking poo atzoe his sailors
Zoe Drewett Oct 2019 https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/02/stowaways-threatened-terrified-cargo-ship...

Passenger vessel exec nabbed for firearms
Joey Gabieta - 2 Oct 2019 https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1172996/passenger-vessel-exec-nabbed-for-f...

TACLOBAN CITY –– The Philippine Coast Guard and the police arrested an official of a passenger vessel for alleged possession of several firearms and ammunition on Wednesday, October 2.

2 PHL fishers dead in Taiwan bridge collapse
Recto Mercene & Samuel P. Medenilla October 3, 2019 https://businessmirror.com.ph/2019/10/03/2-phl-fishers-dead-in-taiwan-br...

THE bodies of two Filipinos were retrieved early Wednesday from under the collapsed Nanfangao Bridge in Taiwan, according to the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (Meco).

Filipino seafarers safe after South Korea tanker blast
October 1, 2019 - https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2019/10/01/1956503/filipino-seafarers...

MANILA, Philippines — The 15 Filipino seafarers, who were crew members of an oil tanker that exploded in a South Korean port last Saturday, are safe.

€24bn in fossil fuel subsidies ‘a perverse incentive’ for shipping pollution
02/10/2019 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/e24bn-in-fossil-fuel-subsidies-a-pe...

Philippines to protest Chinese ships’ presence in Ayungin Shoal
Darryl John Esguerra - October 02, 2019 https://globalnation.inquirer.net/180555/philippines-to-protest-chinese-...

MANILA, Philippines – Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. has ordered the filing of a diplomatic protest over the presence of Chinese vessels in Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea.