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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).

Ship’s engine conks out off Batangas; 63 passengers, crew safe
Luisa Cabato - October 22, 2023 https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1849577/passenger-ship-encounters-engine-f...

Seafarer injured as Liberian bulk carrier damaged by sea mine in Danube canal
Gary Dixon 20 October 2023

Ukrainian TV is reporting a Liberia-flagged bulk carrier has sustained damage after hitting a sea mine.

The incident took place on Wednesday while the unnamed ship was underway in the Danube River canal near Vylkove, Ukraine.
Turkish tanker damaged in collision with sea mine in Ukrainian waters

One seafarer was said to have been injured in the accident.