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Sailors’ Society launches Not On My Watch petition to make wellness training mandatory for seafarers
16/04/2019 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/sailors-society-launches-not-on-my-...

Maritime charity Sailors’ Society is petitioning the International Labour Organization (ILO) to make wellness training for seafarers mandatory in the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC).

Suezmax crude oil tanker fire killed Chief Engineer, injured two
NIKOLAY TORKIN April 16, 2019 https://maritimebulletin.net/2019/04/16/suezmax-crude-oil-tanker-fire-ki...

Maritime Fatigue: Just another band aid?
Dennis L. Bryant April 16, 2019 https://www.maritimeprofessional.com/news/maritime-fatigue-just-another-...

On 24 January, the IMO issued updated guidelines on fatigue. This is just another in a long series of band aids that attempt to cover over the problem without providing a solution.

BIMCO Supports Anti-Corruption Push At The IMO
15/04/2019 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/bimco-supports-anti-corruption-push...

BIMCO has co-sponsored a proposal at the 43rd session of the Facilitation Committee (FAL 43) held at the IMO Headquarters on 8-12 April, putting anti-corruption formally on the IMO agenda going forward.

Ship Recycling Activity Picks Up Ahead of Upcoming Monsoon Season
16/04/2019

Ship recycling activity has picked up considerably over the course of the past week, as a result of upcoming Easter Holidays and the Monsoon season in the Southeast Asian peninsula. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Clarkson Platou Hellas said that “the latest spike in price levels appears to stem from an incentive from the end users in Bangladesh to place tonnage on their yards prior to their budget announcement in the first week of June.

Cosco Shipping shuffles management
16 Apr 2019

Sun Jiakang, 59, had been ranked as the first deputy president and was placed next to Capt Xu within the top management team, after former president Wan Min was relocated from the state shipping conglomerate. Stephen Ng, 60, has retired after more than 31 years of service in OOCL

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Cargo ship damaged while berthing in Brunsbuettel’s Ostermoor
Erofey Schkvarkin April 16, 2019 https://maritimebulletin.net/2019/04/16/cargo-ship-damaged-while-berthin...

Crew abandonment cases spike
Sam Chambers April 15th, 2019 https://splash247.com/crew-abandonment-cases-spike/

Cases of crew abandonment are not diminishing despite greater global attention being paid to the nasty practice.

Migrant rescue ship's crew denied permission to disembark in Malta: Sea Eye NGO sees 'act of chicanery'
April 15, 2019 https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20190415/local/migrant-rescue...

Crew members of an NGO ship which rescued 64 migrants off Libya have been refused permission to disembark in Malta.

GPS spoofing: what’s the risk for ship navigation?
Chris Lo 5 April 2019 https://www.ship-technology.com/features/ship-navigation-risks/

GPS spoofing – or GNSS spoofing more accurately – is a much-discussed cyber-threat to ship navigation systems. With the potential for paralysed shipping lanes, collisions and even untraceable piracy incidents, what is the current state of play between the shipping industry’s cyber-defences and the malicious actors who aim to cause chaos through GPS spoofing?