IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has welcomed the entry into force today (18 January) of new obligations under the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC 2006) which require shipowners to have compulsory ...
IMO welcomes entry into force of financial security for seafarers
Sinking Off Manila Leaves One Dead, Five Missing
By MarEx 2017-01-17 18:24:41 [Brief] Philippine search and rescue teams are looking for five missing members of the crew of the cargo vessel Virginia 1, which caught fire and sank Tuesday at the ...
CLIA Joins Coalition to Combat Wildlife Trafficking
By MarEx 2017-01-17 18:17:03 Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) and American Society for Travel Agents (ASTA) have joined the U.S. Wildlife ...
MH370 Search Suspended
By MarEx 2017-01-17 17:00:00 The search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has been suspended. Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board en route to ...
80 False Killer Whales Dead in Mass Stranding
By MarEx 2017-01-17 16:45:32 Over the weekend, nearly 100 false killer whales were found stranded on a mangrove shoreline in the Florida Everglades, and biologists are trying to determine why they ...
Abu Sayyaf Releases Two Seafarers
By MarEx 2017-01-17 13:48:40 Captain Park Chul Hong, the master of the heavy lift ship Dongbang Giant II, returned to South Korea on Sunday after three months' captivity as a hostage of the Abu ...
Grounded Tanker Off Nova Scotia Refloated
By MarEx 2017-01-16 21:16:29 The Canadian Coast Guard reported Monday that a second attempt to refloat a grounded tanker off the coast of Cape Breton was successful, and the vessel has been brought ...
Video: RNLI Crew Rescues Reluctant Evacuee
By MarEx 2017-01-16 20:09:51 On Friday, a seafarer was evacuated from his ship off Sunderland in a coordinated operation between a volunteer lifeboat crew and a UK Coastguard rescue helicopter. At ...
Successful cooperation for safe sea transport of oil told in new exhibition
The 50 years since the grounding of the tanker Torrey Canyon in 1967 have seen dramatic and sustained reduction in major oil spills from ships, thanks to cooperation between Governments and ...
More Than Offshore: Vard Builds Another Cruise Ship
By MarEx 2017-01-16 18:52:04 Specialty and offshore shipbuilder Vard has signed a letter of intent for one expedition cruise ship, its seventh to date. The $120 million vessel will be about 145 ...