The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has urged the government to overhaul the legislation and regulations governing coastal trading to infuse a new lease of life into the country’s crisis-stricken...
Four United Nations (UN) experts said that Ireland’s Atypical Work Scheme (AWS) introduced for non-European Economic Area (EEA) nationals in the fishing industry breaches the human rights of migrant workers.
Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) in the US has unveiled a programme for the Port of Savannah to simultaneously accommodate six 14,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) vessels by 2024.
A new report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has revealed that six people died every day last year while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to...
A new study conducted by scientists from Germany’s University of Bonn, along with their colleagues from St Augustin and Rostock University, has revealed that the use of high-tech air-trapping materials...
The UK Government has launched a strategy to help the country develop new technologies for the maritime industry.
With just ten weeks to go for Brexit, the majority of British ports have little or no transition plan in place, reveals a survey report published by executive search firm...
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has opposed BHP’s decision to remove Australian crew members from two iron ore carrying vessels.
A fire that broke out on board two Tanzanian-flagged cargo tankers travelling off the coast of Russia has claimed the lives of ten people.
Automation's role in the global transport industry will be 'evolutionary' rather than 'revolutionary', a report by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and World Maritime University (WMU) has predicted.