by The Rev’d Ian Hutchinson Cervantes (Mission to Seafarers – Regional Director – Latin América and Port Chaplain – Panamá) We inhabit a moment when war, pandemic, the politics of amoral “national (self) interest”, and the desperate scrabble for “normality” banish the lifegiving Way, Truth, and Life to a twilight zone labelled “irrelevant”. Franciscan Fr. […]
Review by Jason Zuidema, NAMMA Wendy Cadge. Spiritual Care: The Everyday Work of Chaplains. Oxford, 2023. 232pp. Wendy Cadge, Professor at Brandeis University and Founder of the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab, wrote this book to understand who chaplains are, what they do, and how that work is connected to the settings in which they work. Her […]
by David Reid MA FNI In Rose George’s book Ninety Percent of Everything (2013) we learned that the maritime global supply chain works largely in the background to provide the needs of the global community. For some countries, the outflows or exports create and support their economic growth, copper ore from Chile, Iron ore from […]
By David Reid MA FNI The maritime world is like other commercial spaces. Most shopping centers or office buildings, for example, are built to be rented out to others, not to be used by the owners themselves. So, in shipping. Someone who rents a ship is called a ‘charterer’ and the agreement between that charterer […]
Sailors’ Society is switching its focus to 24/7 virtual support for seafarers and their families across the world. The charity’s global team will provide a virtual chaplaincy service available to all seafarers and their loved ones whenever and wherever they need support, whether they are many miles out to sea, in a busy port or […]
Review by Dr. Jason Zuidema, NAMMA Janna Vaudey, Das ILO-Seearbeitsübereinkommen, 2006 (MLC): Sicherung der internationalen Sozialstandards von Arbeitsbedingungen der Seeleute. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2022. This German-language book is a revised edition of a doctoral dissertation submitted in 2020 in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hamburg. Janna Vaudey, now Advisor to the […]
New Seafarers’ House to open in Port Everglades.
The Naval & Military Bible Society and Bibles for China partner to create a Seafarers’ Mandarin-English Diglot New Testament & Psalms. by Andy Dakin, NMBS Whenever I meet with ICMA and NAMMA members, I am always keen to ascertain what additional resources are needed to help with their ministry to the seafarers they support. Such […]
During the CMA Shipping Conference on March 22, 2023 in Stamford, CT, NAMMA sat down with Jay Brooks, Executive Director of Sailors’ Snug Harbor, to get an understanding of their work.
On March 29, the chairman of the Nederlandse Zeevarendencentrale, the NZC, presented a research report to the Director General of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. The research was carried out by Erasmus University and investigated the welfare needs of seafarers. The research showed that seafarers in Dutch ports need port-based seafarers’ welfare assistance […]
