Maritime news . Week 29
Seafarers and high-risk areas
In the wake of last week’s deadly Red Sea attacks, there’s been a lot of uncertainty created by the Philippines suggesting it will bar its nationals from serving onboard vessels heading to high-risk areas. Carl Martin Faannessen, the CEO of crewing agency Noatun Maritime, has some advice.
Spare a thought for the Philippines’ Department of Migrant Workers (DMW). They are handling a diaspora of millions of Filipinos working overseas. The majority of them work on land, not on vessels. And on land, there is no Maritime Labour Convention.
https://splash247.com/seafarers-and-high-risk-areas/?utm_source=inst&utm_medium=smm&utm_campaign=
The disease of seafaring
Steven Jones, the founder of the Seafarers Happiness Index, reports on disturbing deaths at sea figures tallied by the International Labour Organization.
A groundbreaking new report on fatalities onboard ships has revealed that illness and disease are the leading killers of seafarers worldwide. The first standardised global data collection on seafarer deaths, conducted for fatalities occurring in 2023, provides unprecedented insight into the dangers faced by those who work at sea.
https://splash247.com/the-disease-of-seafaring/?utm_source=inst&utm_medium=smm&utm_campaign=
Why today’s maritime leaders must unlearn to adapt
Irene Rosberg, programme director of the Blue MBA at Copenhagen Business School, writes for Splash.
The map has changed, and it keeps changing. In maritime, this is no longer a cliché; it’s a daily reality.
For those of us shaping the next generation of leadership at the CBS Blue MBA, the biggest challenge facing senior executives today isn’t volatility. It’s the instinct to treat volatility as temporary. Geopolitical flashpoints, carbon regulation, digitalisation, AI, economic instability; these aren’t passing storms. They’re permanent weather systems, and the leadership playbook must evolve.
Autonomous Ships Will Be A Reality Long Before The Industry Is Ready
For years, shipping’s relationship with autonomy has been one of cautious optimism, mixed with deep scepticism. We’ve talked about autonomous ships as if they were distant sci-fi, something for the 2040s – after the technology matures, after the IMO agrees on every word of the autonomy rulebook, after shipowners cautiously test the waters with small-scale pilots…
This mindset is dangerously outdated, writes Orca AI CEO and Co-founder Yarden Gross.
https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/autonomous-ships-will-be-a-reality-long-before-the-industry-is-ready/?utm_source=inst&utm_medium=smm&utm_campaign=