Union says seafarers face a public sector pay freeze despite the importance of their jobs to national security and the environment

Index reports on the yo-yo impact of the pandemic and the associated restrictions

While seafarers visiting the UK can receive vaccinations, they are cannot have their status recognised. The UK’s seafarer welfare organisation is calling for government action

V.Group aims to hire, train and deploy seafarers directly from China to fill the gap that has constrained its ability to grow

While UN agencies support the easing of travel restrictions on seafarers, various governments pay more attention to local pressure groups, especially voters

Shipping’s transformation to an era of decarbonisation and digitalisation will demand new skills. The industry has not cast its net out far enough or explained the vision adequately

The industry must aim for a 100% vaccination rate for seafarers and receiving booster shots is among the next must-do tasks

The push for decarbonisation will be much harder unless we look more forensically at the challenges to be solved at company level and recruit the skills to solve them. Old attitudes are unhelpful

Some seafarers remain hesitant about being inoculated while the vaccines are short supplied, or not recognised in certain geographies. And access to the booster jab is already said to have become a new challenge

The key to a potential new crew-change crisis lies in whether governments will close borders and impose tighter travel curbs on cross-border workers, says the ITF

Trade body Danish Shipping wants 5% of Danish-operated ships to be capable of running on net-zero fuels by 2030 to reach climate neutrality by 2050

BIMCO and Danish Shipping defended the mission amid claims the Danes’ operation strained relations between states and the shipping industry