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Opinion: China Goes Unconventional in Escalating South China Sea Face-Off – gCaptain
https://gcaptain.com/unconventional-south-china-sea-face-off/?utm_campai...

Cruise Ship Sexual Assaults: Cruise Lines Don’t Share Information When Hiring Crew Members
Jim Walker April 9, 2019 https://www.cruiselawnews.com/2019/04/articles/sexual-assault/cruise-shi...

Today, the Miami News Times published an article titled: Sexual Assault Is the Most Publicly Reported Crime on Cruises, but Companies Say It’s Rare.

Human Rights at Sea: Our Opportunity and Our Future
Sayedeh Hajar Hejazi 2019-04-14 https://www.maritime-executive.com/editorials/human-rights-at-sea-our-op...

Human Rights at Sea legal researcher Sayedeh Hajar Hejazi spoke at the 2019 Empowering Women in the Maritime Community conference at the World Maritime University in Malmo, Sweden, April 4-5:

Chinese buyers turn to ‘super cheap’ Colombian coal as Australian restrictions persist
15/04/2019 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/chinese-buyers-turn-to-super-cheap-...

Estonian freighter troubled in English Channel, anchored
NIKOLAY TORKIN sApril 14, 2019 http://maritimebulletin.net/2019/04/14/estonian-freighter-troubled-in-en...

Map: Visualizing 40 Years of Nautical Piracy
Jeff Desjardins April 13, 2019

View the full-size version of the infographic by clicking here (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/40-years-nau...)

For millennia, voyaging on the open seas has been a dangerous and risky endeavor.

Abandoned at sea: the crews cast adrift without food, fuel or pay
Karen McVeigh 12 Apr 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/apr/12/abandoned-at-...

Azraqmoiah have spent 18 desperate months stranded off the coast of UAE, owed $260,000 in wages

Towards a zero-injury shipping industry
06/04/2019 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/towards-a-zero-injury-shipping-indu...

Through its work on Safety Culture, the UK Chamber is changing the way shipping thinks about safeguarding its workforce.

No other maritime organisation has shifted the conversation around safety like the UK Chamber has in its work to help shipping companies understand and implement safer working cultures at sea and ashore.

Accident at sea
Dennis Gorecho, April 13, 2019 https://www.panaynews.net/accident-at-sea/

SEAFARERS work in a hostile environment and no matter how many precautions are taken, accidents are bound to happen resulting to injuries ranging from minor to the most gruesome types; some even leading to fatalities.

Nigeria’s Participation In Shipping Industry Dismal–Experts
11/04/2019 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/nigerias-participation-in-shipping-...

Stakeholders in the Nigeria’s maritime sector have described the nation’s participation in the shipping industry as dismal and discouraging.