At the moment 25.000 seamen, due for furlough, on 2000 Dutch ships are stuck on board due to the Coronavirus. Not one word is mentioned in the Dutch media over this forgotten group, only almost hourly reports about a few hundred of vacationers still stuck abroad.

I know that only a minuscule part of the 1.6 Mill. seafarers in the world are Americans and most of those serve on ships that doesn’t carry commercial cargo in overseas trade. But maybe fellow seafarers on this forum have some compassion for those who are either stranded on board ships, or refused …

[image] Shipping and Airline Industries Call for Designated Crew Change Airports –... The International Chamber of Shipping has teamed up with the International Air Transport Association to jointly call on governments to take urgent action to facilitate ship crew change flights for seafare…

Canada is positioning itself as crew change hub: [image] Canada positions itself as crew change hub - Canada is positioning itself as a crew change hub with public and private sectors coming together to make the movement of seafarers far easier than most places on Earth with continued re…

The deadline is today fort Governments and Authorities around the world to react to the crisis that is created by their reluctance to allow crew change: [image] Unions ready to take action as crewing deadline passes - Splash247 Today marks the deadline for what was described in May as th…

ITF and the Ship Manager’s organization InterManager is reacting to the reluctance of Governments and Authorities around the world to open up for crew change for seafarers that has been held onboard ships for much longer than their contract calls for: [image] InterManager boss singles out…

[image] As Ports Slowly Open, Ships Look to Replace Exhausted Seafarers (Bloomberg) — Ravi Nagar hasn’t seen his wife and 3-year-old son in eight months. That’s because he was stuck on a tanker shuttling between the Middle East and Asia. Nagar was among the rough… …

good old MPA… Singpore has opened up to Phase 2, but looks like they forgot to tell the MPA. all Marina’s and clubs open but you cant take your boat out, not even a canoe. The water is closed to pleasurecraft.

The long saga of delayed crew change due to Covid-19 will probably end one day, but what comes after?: [image] What’s coming next and why it matters - Splash247 With no end in sight to the crew change crisis and uncertainty surrounding the return to whatever normality looks like in futur…

[image] ombugge: but what comes after? Higher wages? :roll_eyes:

You got it right to be cynical. All I see is a proposal to move the master and chief engineers responsibility’s ashore and a “todo” List being produced for the barely trained and poorly paid that are left onboard. We had New Zealanders employed by Anglo Eastern at on time, the same manning agency t…

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