DAKAR SENEGAL, 2 February 2022: The President of the Republic of Senegal, His Excellency Mr Macky SALL is pleased to announce that the Africa Mercy has returned as promised to continue the surgical operations and training that were interrupted in March 2020 by the...

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Cargo Day – Shipping Industry Support Mercy Ships
Mercy Ships Cargo Day 2022Access to quality healthcare in Africa is still very complicated, especially in the more rural or remote areas of the continent. Many people are still dying due to lack of access to medical care or put aside in society due to illnesses or...
Mercy Ships enters a new chapter: Charity takes official delivery of their first purpose-built hospital ship the Global Mercy™
CALOUNDRA, QUEENSLAND - 29 June 2021: Global health charity, Mercy Ships, reports that after a completion and acceptance ceremony on June 16, followed by a handover celebration at the Tianjin Xingang shipyard this past week, the world's largest civilian hospital ship,...
Award-winning documentary series highlighting Australian medics in Africa to air on 7TWO
CALOUNDRA, QUEENSLAND - 20 May 2021: The award-winning 8-part documentary series The Surgery Ship will air for the first time on Australian commercial free-to-air TV beginning this Sunday, 23 May at 11am on 7TWO. The series will run over the next eight weeks, with an...
World’s Largest Civilian Hospital Ship, the Global Mercy™, Successfully Passes Final Sea Trials
Mercy Ships secures plans to further outfit the Global Mercy™ in Europe as ship nears delivery date CALOUNDRA, QUEENSLAND – 10 May 2021: Mercy Ships announced this week that the Global Mercy ™ has now completed deep water sea trials, one of the final milestones in the...
The Global Mercy™ Ready to Sail Around the Globe
We are very excited to announce that our newest ship, the Global Mercy™, is officially seaworthy after passing the final sea trials. This marks a major milestone for Mercy Ships and signals the approaching end of the construction process, started in 2015. Passing sea...