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July 18, 2020 No Responses

ITF: 600,000 Seafarers Impacted By Crew Change Crisis

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) estimates that there are now approximately 300,000 seafarers trapped working aboard ships due to the crew change crisis caused Covid-19 border and travel restrictions, and an equal number of unemployed seafarers waiting to join...

July 10, 2020 No Responses

ILO Welcomes COVID-19 Seafarers’ Rights Agreement

The International Labour Organization has expressed support for new international measures to protect the rights of seafarers, stranded at sea because of the COVID-19 crisis .It welcomed a joint statement signed by more than a dozen countries that gives ...

July 7, 2020 No Responses

Sarumi, Dafinone, Others Seek Support For Seafarers’ Welfare

The Chairman, Mission To Seafarers Lagos (MTSL), Chief Adebayo Sarumi on Monday pledged to work toward improving welfare of seafarers in Nigeria. According to him, over 3, 000 ships berth in Lagos yearly, with 80 per cent being foreign flagged,...

June 25, 2020 No Responses

NLNG Spotlights Seafarers Scheme,100% Nigerianisation Of Fleets

By citybusinessnews@yahoo.com — On 25 June every year, seafarers are celebrated for keeping the global economy rolling despite various challenges. With the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the services seafarers provide according to...

June 14, 2020 No Responses

Marine Engineer Tasks NIMASA On Discrimination Against Nigerian Seafarers’ Certificate

A Marine Engineer, Daniel Ikueyemi, on Saturday urged the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to address the issue of discrimination against the Nigerian Seafarers’ Certificate of Competence (COC). He made the appeal on an Instagram l...

June 10, 2020 No Responses

Another Seafarer Tests Positive For COVID-19

Another crew member of MV Montpellier, a containership chartered by German shipping major Hapag-Lloyd, has tested positive for coronavirus in South Africa. As a result, the vessel will have to remain in quarantine at anchorage and will not be able to...

April 23, 2020 No Responses

Welfare Board Holds First Virtual Meeting With Nigerian Seafarers

The National Seafarers Welfare Board (NSWB) would today, April 23, 2020 at 11am address the challenges and fears of Nigerian seafarers offshore and ashore in the face of the COVID -19 pandemic, to provide them the necessary support for the...

April 15, 2020 No Responses

Report: 37 Ships Boarded, 22 Seafarers Kidnapped In Q1, 2020

Pirates boarded 37 ships and kidnapped 22 seafarers in the first quarter of 2020, the latest report from the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IBM) shows. In total, the bureau received reports of 47 attacks in the first three months of...

January 20, 2017 No Responses

‘Amendments to MLC 2006 ensures adequate protection for seafarers, families’

The first amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006) which ensure better protection to seafarers and their families in case of abandonment, death and long-term disability entered into force on 18 January 2017. The amendments were approved...