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• Streamline, maritime recruitment news from Faststream

  Streamline, the maritime recruitment newsletter from the Faststream Recruitment Group. A round-up of news from our commercial desks in the EMEA, Asia-Pacific and the Americas Commercial Shipping - EMEA “We feel optimistic about placing

• Widdows joins Rickmers

  Ron Widdows will take the CEO’s seat at German owner Rickmers Group less than two months after walking away from the same position at Neptune Orient Lines.

• London drive at Squire Sanders

  The recruitment line-up will bring the number of London-based shipping lawyers to eight to match its US team.

• L&S gas-division head jumping ship to Pareto

  Helen Riley, head of the gas department of shipbroker Lorentzen & Stemoco (L&S), is leaving the company to join finance house Pareto in Oslo.

• Massive challenge for new Maersk boss

  New Maersk Line boss Soren Skou has his work cut out if he is to restore the world’s largest boxship operator to profitability.

• ITF signs up two more

  The ITF union has signed up another two cargoships to new pay deals following a week of action at Visakhapatnam.

• Two crew freed

  Two crew kidnapped from an Edison Chouest Offshore vessel have been released off Nigeria.

• Maersk boxship towed

  A Maersk Line boxship needed a tow from tugs after partially losing power off Norway.

• Rosalia D'Amato freed

  The Italian bulker Rosalia D'Amato has been released by Somalia pirates after seven months in captivity.

• Six feared lost in sinking

  A search for five Russian seafarers missing after the general cargoship Swanland sank in gales in the Irish Sea has been suspended overnight.

• Man missing after clash

  A fisherman is missing after a smash between a trawler and a South Korean cargoship off Japan

• Boxship man overboard

  A search is on for a crewman who fell from a Greek-managed boxship off Australia on Thursday morning.

• Kuznetsov to be towed home

  An icebreaker has reached a drifting Russian cargoship in the White Sea after its crew were airlifted to safety.

• Still time for snaps

  The entries have been flooding in for this year’s TradeWinds' Maritime Photographer of the Year competition, but there is still time to add your treasured snap to the list.

• Aframax, boxship collide

  Three containers fell from an MSC boxship on to a Greek tanker during a smash in the Houston Ship Channel.

• Ten missing after collision

  One seafarer has died and another 10 were missing following a collision between a Japanese containership and a general cargo vessel off China.

• Cameron triggers guard hope

  Rules restricting the use of armed security teams on UK-flagged ships will be lifted, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

• Two killed in Ireland

  Investigations have begun into deaths in accidents at two Irish ports last week.

• Pirates abandon tanker

  The Malaysian navy has freed a tanker that was under the control of pirates for a day off Indonesia.

• Long search over for Transatlantic

  Swedish ro-ro owner Rederi AB Transatlantic has brought in a new chief financial officer from Volvo.