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Crew members aboard international voyage ships are susceptible to imported acute respiratory infections, leading to clusters of outbreaks that pose challenges to the health of crew members. The aim of the proposed study was to optimize a plan for the quarantine process and rescue measures in response to a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak at sea to provide policy guidance for the prevention and control of severe infectious diseases on international voyage ships. Here, we described the baseline characteristics of international voyage ships and crew members entering Zhoushan Port from 2020 to 2022 and analyzed the factors influencing the incidence rate of COVID-19 among crew members. There were 161 COVID-19 cases among cargo ships entering Zhoushan Port by sea, with an average incidence rate of 16.00% (95% CI: 13.73%-18.27%). The incidence rate of COVID-19 was significantly higher among crew members with replacement, long voyage, and those who stayed at multiple anchorages or stayed for a long time. The risk of COVID-19 infection for crew members staying at more than 4 anchorage was the highest, which was 2.667 (95% CI: 1.857-3.830) times that of crew members staying at less than 4 anchorage. We developed and refined the workflow for a public health assistance plan for outbreaks at sea on the basis of our experience with several COVID-19 outbreaks on international voyage ships. The workflow includes fundamental requirements, sampling and testing methods, personnel transfer procedures, medical waste disposal guidelines, and disinfection procedures for affected ships. Our public health assistance plan can be applied to other international voyage ships for which urgent public health assistance is needed during sudden infectious disease outbreaks.

El Faro's Voyage Data Recorder Located.

El Faro's Voyage Data Recorder Located.

World's Largest Boxship Wraps Up Maiden Voyage.

Fincantieri To Build 3 New Cruise Ships Worth 2 Billion Euros For Virgin Voyages.

The National Transportation Safety Board will launch a mission to recover a voyage data recorder that was located on April 26 in about 15,000 feet of water near the Bahamas.

Viking Ship Cuts Voyage Short Due to Pilotage Fees.

Nunavik's voyage through the Northwest Passage.

Danish firm claims first biofuel commercial sea voyage.

Voyage Planning, Equipment Failures Cause Carnival's Pollution Woes.

Icebreaker Xuelong completes 83-day Arctic voyage.

Wärtsilä Conducts Autonomous Ferry Voyage and Docking.

Five nuclear-powered voyages to melting North Pole.

LNG Tanker Makes First Summer Voyage along Northern Sea Route.

Vanishing Arctic ice will open the way for more science voyages, analysis suggests.

Watch: Aurora Australis Completes Final Antarctic Voyage.

CDC: Cruise Ship Outbreaks Risk Spreading COVID-19 "Beyond the Voyage".

NASA's James WEBB Space Telescope successfully arrived in French Guiana Tuesday, after a 16-day journey at sea. The 5,800-mile voyage took WEBB from California through the Panama Canal to Port de Pariacabo on the Kourou River in French Guiana, on the northeastern coast of South America.

Large-scale weather forecasting is critical for ensuring maritime safety and optimizing transoceanic voyages. However, sparse meteorological data, incomplete forecasts, and unreliable communication hinder accurate, high-resolution wind system predictions. This study addresses these challenges to enhance dynamic voyage planning and intelligent ship navigation. We propose IPCA-MHA-DSRU-Net, a novel deep learning model integrating incremental principal component analysis (IPCA) with a spatial-temporal depthwise separable U-Net. Key components include: (1) IPCA preprocessing to reduce dimensionality and noise in 2D wind field data; (2) depthwise-separable convolution (DSC) blocks to minimize parameters and computational costs; (3) multi-head attention (MHA) and residual mechanisms to improve spatial-temporal feature extraction and prediction accuracy. The framework is optimized for real-time onboard deployment under communication constraints. The model achieves high accuracy in high-resolution wind predictions, validated through reanalysis datasets. Experiments demonstrated enhanced path planning efficiency and robustness in dynamic oceanic conditions. The IPCA-MHA-DSRU-Net balances computational efficiency and accuracy, making it viable for resource-limited ships. This novel IPCA application provides a promising alternative for preprocessing large-scale meteorological data.

IKEA and CMA-CGM pilot biofuel voyage from Rotterdam.

Moscow threatens to SINK foreign ships using Arctic sea route that links Atlantic to the Pacific unless it is given 45 days notice of voyages and vessels take a Russian pilot on board.