Four Filipino seafarers will soon be back to the Philippines after the Somali pirates freed them along with 27 others last Thursday, the government said Saturday. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said crew members of oil tanker MT Hannibal II were held hostage for almost four months at the east of Horn of Africa, [...]

An international crew of middle schools students from the Albany area and The Netherlands is making its way up the Hudson River aboard the replica ship Half Moon. The New York students from schools in Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer and Columbia counties and their shipmates from Holland are recreating the voyage Henry Hudson sailed aboard the [...]

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Twenty-four Killybegs fishermen who were crewing boats working off the coast of Chile are safe and well after the earthquake and tsunami which struck the South American country at the weekend. Six men from the Donegal port are on each of the four vessels which have been working more than 300 kilometres off the Chilean [...]

All 30 crew members of a Taiwanese deep-sea fishing vessel are safe and on their way back to Taiwan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) reiterated Friday, rebutting media reports that three of its crew had died.The 700-ton longliner Win Far 161 and its crew of 30 were released the previous day by Somali pirates [...]

The government of Philippines has appealed for international help to deal with the aftermath of the devastating floods that have killed 240 and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless. The homes of nearly 1.9 million people in the capital, Manila, and surrounding areas were inundated by flood water unleashed by tropical storm Ketsana over [...]

As pirates increasingly target cargo vessels in the Gulf of Aden, owners are struggling to pay escalating ransom demands — putting their crews at risk, an insurance executive told nearly 100 Korean ship owners and insurance brokers meeting here. Jonathan Doherty, North Asia regional manager for the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, noted that each [...]

A South Korean cargo ship is thought to have sunk after colliding with a Panamanian vessel off the coast of Japan, the Korea Coast Guard said. The 4,200-ton Orchid Pia is missing with seven South Korean and nine Indonesian crew members, Jang Soo Pyo, a coast guard official, said today by phone. The South Korean [...]

Over two-thirds of Lloyd’s List readers believe that the credit crunch will threaten the improvements seen in shipping safety in recent years, according to our poll. Faced with a straight yes-no choice, the proposition is favoured by 71%, with 29% against. The findings come after marine insurers have voiced fears about a flight from quality, [...]

Two desperate, dehydrated men found bobbing in a bathtub-sized cooler off Australia told authorities they spent 25 days adrift after their fishing boat sank, officials said Tuesday. There was no sign of 18 other crew members. Authorities were amazed that the men, from the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, were spotted by a routine customs [...]