Maritime Education
A Reality Check On The Seafarer Crisis
Henrik Jensen, the CEO of Danica Crewing Services, says we should avoid framing shipping as uniquely worse than other industries....
CIoTA Nigeria Executive Council Holds Strategic Retreat, Unveils Roadmap For Institutional Advancement
The National Executive Council of the Chartered Institute of Transport Administration (CIoTA) Nigeria has held its strategic retreat in Abuja....
The Seafarer Demographic Delusion
Seafarer Steven Jones, founder of the Seafarers Happiness Index, on shipping’s failure to nurture a new generation of crews. The...
NEPC Trains 96,000 Exporters On Capacity Building
The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) says it conducted 728 capacity-building programmes in 2025, impacting 96,221 participants across its 36...
Record 6,223 Seafarers Abandoned In 2025
Seafarers abandonment 2025 Seafarer abandonment hit record levels in 2025, according to new data compiled by...
Seafarers Push To Shape The Ships They Sail
From ergonomics on the bridge to social spaces below deck, seafarers are urging shipowners and yards to listen to their...
Ghana Pushes for Local Ownership of Maritime Security in Gulf of Guinea
Ghana’s Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Godwin Livinus Bessing, has stressed the need for the African maritime sector to...
Why Crew Wellbeing Is A Commercial And Ethical Imperative
Burcu Kula Akbaş, an expert clinical psychologist, and Murat Bingül, senior psychological counsellor with the AVS Global Ship Supply team...
QUESTION OF THE WEEK: What is the Difference Between a Shipowner, Disponent Owner and Carrier?
Every ship is a physically undivided "unit," but its property is, in fact, legally split into ideal "parts," the number...
SHIPTALK: Why Ship’s Hull Fail At Mid-ship Region
We have had a lot of marine accidents that involved failure of the hull structures. Whether it was a crack...
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