The ICMA Regional Conference took place in Odessa, Ukraine. Chaplains from the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions as well as Ukrainian Maritime Welfare workers were gathered to network and to discuss experiences, challenges and achievements encounte more...

A new film gives Somali piracy the Scandinoir treatment.

Thank goodness it is only fiction: this was a reaction to a film that goes on general release next month, exploring the reality of a ship hijacking in the Somali basin.

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Chirag Bahri, MPHRP Regional Director South Asia, was invited by Applied Research Institute, New Delhi to address Seafarers on Maritime Piracy and MPHRP work and its activities on 8 April 2013. The participants included 30 Seafarers of senior ranks i more...

MPHRP has been awarded the Sailor Today Seafarer Welfare Award of the Year for our very crucial work for seafarers and their families.

The presentation took place at the annual awards ceremony in Mumbai with an audience of over 500 people attendin more...

We are happy to welcome the release of 21 crew members from their captivity and are equally saddened to hear the loss of one Nigerian crew member due to illness during their year in captivity. more...

MPHRP's aims and ideas were presented by Alexander Dimitrevich at the joint meeting with ICSW Executive Director, Roger Harris, and representatives of different Seafarers' Welfare organisations which provide their activities in Ukrainian ports and ma more...