To mark the Year of the Seafarer, the GAC Group has offered its support to international maritime welfare charity the Sailors’ Society, facilitating its global distribution network in aid of the organisation. Every year the Sailors’ Society receives more than…

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• Britain and Singapore. Sailors Society in the Asian Community Express Brand

    300 guests representing major shipping industry companies came together recently at a glittering Singapore Reception to learn about the vital work carried out by (Southampton-based) international seafarers’ charity, Sailors’ Society. The Sailors’ Society has long been operating in Indonesia, the Philippines and India and is excited to establish stronger links

• Philippines orders sailors to take anti-piracy classes

    The Philippines has ordered its seamen, comprising about a third of the world’s commercial sailors, to go through anti-piracy training. The labour ministry said the classes must be completed before any future seafarer is allowed to go to sea

• Navios Maritime Partners LP Increases Cash Distribution by 1.2% to $ 0.41 per unit

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• Sailors fear of job loss over Pirates

    Despite the threat posed by piracy, sailors are more fearful of a ban on manning ships passing the pirate-plagued Somalia coast as it would put their families’ livelihoods at risk. United Filipino Seafarers president Nelson Ramirez said a ban would adversely affect some 229,000 Filipino sailors now working on merchant

• Capital Product Partners LP Announces Cash Distribution

     Capital Product Partners L.P. yesterday announced that its board of directors has declared a cash distribution of $0.41 per unit for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009. The second quarter cash distribution remains unchanged from the previous cash distribution of $0.41 per unit, which was paid for the period from

• IMO launches u0026quot

    The International Maritime Organization ( IMO ) “launched” the theme for this year’s World Maritime Day – “2010: Year of the Seafarer” – at an event held at its London headquarters yesterday ( 11 January 2010 ), co-hosted with the International Shipping Federation (ISF) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation

• Year of seafarers launches new STCW revisions

    As the Year of the Seafarer dawns, the professional standing of seafarer’s worldwide is set to be enhanced by the International Maritime Organisation’s STW Sub‐Committee completion of revisions to the 1995 Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping Convention. At the IMO’s official launch of the Year of the Seafarer in

• KR celebrates 50 years classification

    The Korean Register of Shipping (KR) celebrated its 50th anniversary, debuting a book charting the company’s history at a gala dinner last night in the South Korean capital. Around 150 leading shipping executives flocked to the Lotte Hotel in central Seoul to toast the classification society which now has more

• Inter manager reiterated its support for the occupation in the seafarer

    As 2010 heralds the Year of the Seafarer, InterManager – the international trade association for shipmanagers – has pledged to pull out all the stops in its support of crew members worldwide. InterManager President Roberto Giorgi said: “Last year we were heartened by the support we received from throughout the

• Hellas complains about ship records and prison conditions for sailors Tanker

     Greek deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis met earlier today with the Ukranian Ambassador, Mr. Valeriy Tsybukh, during which meeting, Tsybuhkh mentioned the captured ship “Ariana” — under Maltese flag and of Greek interests — as well as the detention of 24 Ukranian sailors by Somali pirates since February 5, 2009. For his

• Hellas complains about ship records and prison conditions for sailors Tanker

     Greek deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis met earlier today with the Ukranian Ambassador, Mr. Valeriy Tsybukh, during which meeting, Tsybuhkh mentioned the captured ship “Ariana” — under Maltese flag and of Greek interests — as well as the detention of 24 Ukranian sailors by Somali pirates since February 5, 2009. For his

• Expert: Lithuanian hostage crisis could drag on

     A Lithuanian maritime expert says that any negotiations with pirates about the release of five Lithuanian sailors abducted in Nigeria could last months. Petras Bekeza, the chairman of Lithuania’s sailors’ union, says that the pirates who seized the crew members of a Lithuanian ship on Monday while it was docked in

• Up to 364,000 sailors deficit by 2050, says Tokyo think tank

    The gloomiest forecast yet of the widening scarcity in skilled and trained seafarers has been delivered by the highly respected Tokyo-based think tank Ocean Policy Research Foundation which claims that a boom in global seaborne trade over the next 40… Read at Up to 364,000 seafarer shortfall by 2050, says Tokyo

• ClassNK to create new Local Area Representative Office in Fujairah

    Japanese ship classification society NIPPON KAIJI KYOKAI (ClassNK) is pleased to announce the establishment of its new Local Area Representative Office at Fujairah, United Arab Emirates effective 1 September 2009 at the address shown below. Establishment of the Local Area Representative at Fujairah further reinforces ClassNK’s service network by becoming the 106th

• MLC 2006 are likely to attract more seafarers

    The plight of the seafarer came under the spotlight at the 10th International Symposium on Maritime Health in Goa as speakers from the International Labour Organisation and the International Maritime Organisation both pointed to the need for greater attention to… Read at MLC 2006 ‘could attract’ more seafarers