Indian sailors acquitted by South Korean court

Two Indian sailors, jailed for a year in South Korea after a crane barge collided with their crude carrier leading to a major oil spill in December 2007, were on Thursday acquitted by the Supreme......

Somali pirates release Stolt Valor

M T Stolt Valor, a cargo ship with 18 Indian sailors on board and hijacked by Somalian pirates in the Gulf of Aden two months back, has been released, National Union of Seafarers of India said on......

India had offered to evacuate Pakistanis from Wuhan: MEA

The government on Friday said it had offered to bring back people belonging to neighbouring countries, including Pakistan, from the novel coronavirus-hit Wuhan where 80 Indian students are still......

Welfarism vs Industry: The challenge awaiting Vijayan

The LDF government -- which has negotiated a series of crises in the form of natural disasters to the Covid pandemic -- cannot turn a blind eye to the accumulated debt of the state that now exceeds......

Covid curbs at foreign ports hit Indian seafarers hard

The trade to-and-from India so far is not affected. But if the situation continues to remain the same for the next two to three months, it could definitely hurt India trade, including essential......

Shipping & ports: Seafarer tax anomaly set to go off

Shipping industry got some positive news in the Union Budget with removing the anomaly in computation of residential status of seafarer working in Indian ship and foreign ship. However, Shipping......

India eyes 60% share of global ship recycling biz

Currently, India recycles around 300 of the 1,000 ships which are demolished per annum globally. However, countries like Japan, Europe and the US were not sending their ships for recycling to India......