Mohammed and his three crewmates had been effectively in captivity, abandoned for five years, on a tugboat in Mumbai harbour.
A Spanish Navy research vessel found the bodies of 11 people in a small boat off the strait of Gibraltar in late December. The boat was carrying 55 passengers when it set off for Spain, and a further 11 people remained missing. One of the 33 people rescued later died in hospital.
Britain has arrested two people suspected of people smuggling, following a rise in the number of people attempting the perilous crossing of the English Channel.
The UK’s Special Boat Service (SBS) boarded a cargo ship in the Thames estuary after the crew reported that they had been threatened by stowaways.
Greece has awarded citizenship to three migrant fishers who rescued Greeks from a wildfire outside Athens last July.
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is an international trade union federation of transport workers’ unions. Any independent trade union with members in the transport industry is eligible for membership of the ITF.
The forward-looking assessment, produced by WMU, investigates how the global transport industry will change as a result of automation and advanced technologies, forecasting and analyzing trends and developments in the major transport sectors - seaborne, road, rail and aviation - to 2040
The decision will see 80 Australian seafarers lose their jobs, ending more than 100 years of Australian-crewed iron ore shipping servicing BHP and BlueScope steelworks, to be replaced by foreign crew on Flag of Convenience (FoC) vessels.
Incidents of piracy and armed robbery increased in 2018, according to the latest annual piracy report from the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Maritime Bureau (IMB). The IMB reports a marked rise in attacks against ships and crews around West Africa.
