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'2,337 Nigerian Seafarers Placed Onboard Vessels In 6 Months’
August 21, 2018 https://leadership.ng/2018/08/21/2337-nigerian-seafarers-placed-onboard-...

Director-general of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has disclosed that the number of Nigerian seafarers placed onboard vessels from January to June this year increased to 2,337, representing a 58.9 per cent rise in the number of seafarers employed.

V.Group Launches Project “Embark” to Transform Crewing
2018-08-20 https://www.maritime-executive.com/corporate/v-group-launches-project-em...

Cargo ship crew poisoned by fumigation, Ravenna
STEPAN KOTCHERGA August 21, 2018 http://maritimebulletin.net/2018/08/21/cargo-ship-crew-poisoned-by-fumig...

Report shows reduction in CO2 emissions from container shipping sector
20 August 2018 https://www.ship-technology.com/news/report-shows-reduction-co2-emission...

A report from global nonprofit business network BSR unit Clean Cargo Working Group has revealed that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from ships operated by 22 of the world’s major ocean container carrier lines witnessed a drop last year.

The Global Maritime Industry Remains Unprepared for Future Cybersecurity Challenges
Professor Vivian Louis Forbes, 21 August 2018

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PPA regulatory functions proposed for transfer to MARINA
August 19, 2018 http://www.bworldonline.com/ppa-regulatory-functions-proposed-for-transf...

A LEGISLATOR has filed a bill seeking to reorganize the Philippine Ports Authority by separating its regulatory and commercial functions.

Hypertension as a seafarer’s illness
Dennis Gorecho 20 Aug 2018 https://www.panaynews.net/hypertension-as-a-seafarers-illness/

THE JOB of a seafarer is not exactly a walk in the park. One with a serious medical condition like uncontrolled hypertension is “a walking time bomb ready to explode towards the end of his employment days.”

Malampaya template pitched for joint exploration in West Philippine Sea
Bernadette D. Nicolas -August 19, 2018 https://businessmirror.com.ph/malampaya-template-pitched-for-joint-explo...

A COMMERCIAL transaction on a joint exploration with China in the West Philippine Sea should adopt the Malampaya model and must be done according to the Constitution, former Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said.

Landing your dream job in shipping
20/08/2018 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/landing-your-dream-job-in-shipping/

Oscar Arnoldsen was chosen as one of sixteen Maritime Trainees from a whopping 1 400 applicants when he landed his dream job as a Maritime Trainee in the program provided by the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association. This week he starts his trainee period with Höegh Autoliners, at the Company’s Head Office in Oslo.

Georgia’s MFA says 17 sailors aboard missing Gulf of Guinea tanker
18 August 2018 https://africatimes.com/2018/08/18/gulf-of-guinea-georgias-mfa-says-17-s...

The government of Georgia says that 17 of its citizens are missing after an oil tanker fell silent in the Gulf of Guinea, a notorious global hotspot of piracy and ship hijackings on Africa’s western coast.