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DFA 'ready' to provide aid for Pinoy crew of another ship Iran seized
Sep 08 2019 https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/09/08/19/dfa-ready-to-provide-aid-for-...

MANILA - The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Sunday it would provide assistance to 12 Filipino seafarers after their boat was seized by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, Saturday.

The Philippine Embassy in Tehran is monitoring the incident, the DFA said in a statement.

One dead, two injured in accident with cargo ship with Russian-Ukrainian crew in Germany
7 Sep,2019 https://tass.com/emergencies/1077006

Two crew members received serious burns and were taken to a Hamburg clinic by helicopter

BERLIN, September 6. /TASS/. One person died and two more were hurt in a cargo vessel accident on the Elbe River. The crew included 11 Russian and two Ukrainian nationals, a spokesman for Germany’s Federal Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation (BSU) told TASS on Friday.

Sailors complain of abuses on ship
Zaw Zaw Htwe 27 Aug 2019 https://www.mmtimes.com/news/sailors-complain-abuses-ship.html
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A group of Myanmar sailors complained on Wednesday of poor accommodations, food and safety standards when they worked on a foreign ship.

Carpio corrects China ship owner's apology: Recto Bank not part of Spratlys
Sofia Tomacruz August 28, 2019 https://www.rappler.com/nation/238773-carpio-corrects-china-ship-owner-a...

Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio says Recto Bank is within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone, 'beyond the territorial sea of any island in the Spratlys'

Why is China hiding its oil tankers from US trackers?
Peter Beaumont 29 Aug 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/29/why-is-china-hiding-its-oi...

Signs Beijing may be importing Iranian oil as Trump’s two biggest foreign policy headaches converge

In early June, a Chinese-owned supertanker abruptly went dark in the Indian Ocean, the tracking system signalling its course apparently deactivated.

Crewmember of Cruise Ship Vision of the Seas Killed in Fall
2019-09-05 https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/crewmember-of-cruise-ship-vis...

[Brief] A crewmember of the cruise ship Vision of the Seas fell from the vessel into the water and died at the port of Livorno, Italy on Thursday.

Abandoned Cargo Ship Found Drifting in the Mid-Atlantic
Mike Schuler September 5, 2019 https://gcaptain.com/abandoned-cargo-ship-found-drifting-in-the-mid-atla...

The Royal Navy ice patrol ship stumbled upon a mysterious ghost ship while in underway in the mid-Atlantic Ocean earlier this week.

US offers cash to tanker captains in bid to seize Iranian ships
4 Sept 2019 https://www.ft.com/content/20188064-cefb-11e9-99a4-b5ded7a7fe3f

Washington mixes bait and threats as ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against Tehran becomes unorthodox

Four days before the US imposed sanctions on an Iranian tanker suspected of shipping oil to Syria, the vessel’s Indian captain received an unusual email from the top Iran official at the Department of State.

GEORGE HOYT’S ‘ADOPT A SHIP’: The bridge that connects seafarers and children around the world
YASHIKA F. TORIB September 04, 2019 https://www.manilatimes.net/2019/09/04/business/maritime-business/the-br...

“If a ship is made of metal and it is larger than our school, why doesn’t it sink?” “How does the ship sail at night?” “What do you do with your garbage?”

Tlero: The seafarer wellbeing checker
September 4th, 2019 https://splash247.com/tlero-the-seafarer-wellbeing-checker/

Every year in the UK mental health costs around $1,574 per employee, according to analysis from London’s Centre for Mental Health, costs that are even higher for seafarers.