Safety

Scotland’s largest ferry union, RMT, has written to Kevin Stewart MSP, the new Scottish Transport Minister, to demand an urgent meeting over the increasingly fragile resilience of the ferry services. This follows the latest safety incident involving what [Read more...]

Cruise ships have long been considered as incubators of microorganisms, due to the ease of microbial build-up on frequently used items in communal areas, including grab rails, tables, seating, and soft furnishings. International Cruise Ship Industry is proud [Read more...]

The European Council (EC) has adopted a new law to improve stability requirements for ropax ferries. This new directive will play an important role in ensuring the safety of both vessels and their passengers in the European Union (EU), in [Read more...]

Survival technology solutions provider, Survitec has opened a new customer service centre in Miami, Florida. This new centre doubles its operations to facilitate anticipated demand for its evacuation system, Seahaven, which received full classification approval last year. The [Read more...]

Baleària has signed up AmendTec to provide real-time position and AIS data visualisation for its own fleet and nearby ships. The Spanish ferry operator previously used ship tracking and vessel intelligence software that visualised AIS data. However, there [Read more...]

Following a successful business relationship lasting many years, Carnival Cruise Line (CCL) and DNV are to co-operate in the cruise line’s new HESS (Health, Environment, Safety and Sustainability) Excellence programme. As the first major US cruise line to [Read more...]

Eleven Stena RoRo LNG-fuelled E-Flexer ropaxes scheduled for charter to European and Canadian operators will each feature marine evacuation systems (MES) supplied by survival technology solutions provider, Survitec. Survitec has already delivered three shipsets of the evacuation systems. [Read more...]

Oceanwide Expeditions has teamed up with the Polar Tourism Guiding Association (PTGA) as an Accredited Provider. As a result, Oceanwide Expeditions will adopt the PTGA’s ISO accredited Workplace Based Assessment programme. Oceanwide will be scheduling staff for the forthcoming PTGA [Read more...]

Recently relaunched cruise company Crystal has selected Allianz Global Assistance as its trip protection provider. As a result, guests can purchase an Allianz policy to take advantage of benefits for cover of unexpected cancellations, interruptions and travel delays, in addition to [Read more...]

Maritime union RMT has written to the UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) after it was reported that a lifeboat had fallen off the new P&O Ferries’ ropax ‘P&O Pioneer’. Accidents involving lifeboats are one of the most [Read more...]