crew change crisis

by Orathai Sriring (Reuters) – Thailand on Wednesday further eased coronavirus restrictions and plans to shorten a quarantine period to (assist seafarers

By Krystal Chia (Bloomberg) — Shipowners are facing rising labor costs as widespread Covid-related restrictions limit movement of seafarers and make crew

By Lars Erik Taraldsen (Bloomberg) — Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg warned of a humanitarian and trade crisis if the roughly 800,000 seafarers

By K. Oanh Ha and Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) — The world’s largest container shipping companies and the United Nations Secretary-General are appealing to

A bulk carrier runs aground in Mauritius, spilling 1,000 tonnes of bunker fuel resulting in an environmental catastrophe. Forty crew members from a livestock

By Aaron Clark, Annie Lee and Jinshan Hong (Bloomberg) — Australian authorities detained at least two cargo ships for alleged labor violations related to

By Aaron Clark and Annie Lee (Bloomberg) — A new risk to global supply chains is emerging as exhausted seafarers stuck offshore for months halt work, a

By Aaron Clark (Bloomberg) — Seafarers aboard three vessels who’ve been stuck at sea beyond their original contracts are stalling vessels in Australia,

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, July 22 (Reuters) – Shipping companies are still struggling to get hundreds of thousands of crew members back home after many

COPENHAGEN, July 20 (Reuters) – Denmark will allow merchant sailors stranded on the high seas since the outbreak of the coronavirus to come ashore and be

A group of governments from twelve countries have come together to pledge urgent action to resolve the crew change crisis that has emerged as a result of

By Michael Hogan and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen HAMBURG, July 9 (Reuters) – Jens Boysen disembarked one of the world’s largest container ships on

By K. Oanh Ha, Krystal Chia and Claire Jiao (Bloomberg) — Like thousands of other seafarers, Karika Neethling wanted to get home as the coronavirus

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) – Djibouti has carried out the first crew change of merchant sailors in its territory and is ready to get home

The U.N. International Maritime Organization is highlighting the plight of seafarers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic on this year’s annual Day

The International Transport Workers’ Federation said it will now support ship crews’ rights to stop working, even if that comes at the cost of disrupting

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY, June 17 (Reuters) – Pope Francis paid tribute on Wednesday to hundreds of thousands of seafarers stuck on ships due to

(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

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of weary seafarers stuck on ships for many months and unable to go home due to the

The International Maritime Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has taken the unprecedented step of telling the world’s seafarers to stop working if their