Hundreds of seafarers still stuck in Ukraine despite grains corridor – industry
London, UKReuters Around 82 ships with 418 seafarers remain stuck around Ukrainian ports despite the opening of a UN-backed sea corridor to ship grains with efforts to get the mariners sailing still stuck, shipping industry officials said on Thursday. The agreement reached in July, creating a protected sea transit corridor, was designed to alleviate global […]
Stranded seafarers escape Ukraine, others trapped – ILO, sources
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters Some of the estimated 1,000 seafarers trapped in Ukraine have escaped, the International Labour Organization and industry officials told Reuters, while voicing concern for those remaining trapped onboard ships or unaccounted for. Several foreign cargo ships have been struck by crossfire in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on 24th February and […]
Food supplies running low on foreign ships stuck in Ukraine
London, UKReuters Food and medical supplies onboard over 100 foreign flagged ships stuck in Ukraine due to the conflict are running low, with little progress on creating a maritime corridor to allow them to sail away, industry officials said on Wednesday. London’s marine insurance market has widened the area of waters it considers high risk […]
As Ukraine evacuates trapped seafarers, foreign mariners count cost of war
London, UK/Dhaka, Bangladesh Reuters Bangladeshi seafarer Asiful Islam recalls the moment when a missile struck his cargo ship last week off the Ukrainian port of Olvia, killing his crew mate. “I was just 15 feet away when it hit our ship. Our third engineer, Hadisur Rahman, who was killed, was standing just two feet away,” […]
SOS: Stranded and shattered seafarers threaten global supply lines
JONATHAN SAUL and ROSLAN KHASAWNEH, of Reuters, report on the plight of tens of thousands of seafarers around the world…
Top global traders work to ease seafarer crisis due to coronavirus
London, UKReuters More than 300 leading companies said on Tuesday they would work together to help hundreds of thousands of merchant sailors stuck on ships for many months due to COVID-19 in a crisis that risks creating more dangers at sea. About 90 per cent of world trade is transported by sea, and coronavirus restrictions […]
Labour group seeks help for hundreds of thousands of seafarers stranded by COVID
New York, USThomson Reuters Foundation Hundreds of thousands of seafarers around the world are stranded at sea due to coronavirus travel restrictions, unable to go home or get medical care, the International Labour Organization said on Tuesday, calling on nations to address their plight. Many shipping and transport workers have been at sea as long […]
Amid fight to curb coronavirus, UN urges designation of seafarers as key workers
New York, USReuters The 193-member UN General Assembly urged all countries to designate seafarers and other marine personnel as key workers on Tuesday after travel restrictions to combat the spread of COVID-19 have left hundreds of thousands stranded at sea for months. A unanimously adopted resolution encouraged governments to ensure safe ship crew changes and […]
CONVERSATIONS: REV CANON STEPHEN MILLER, THE MISSION TO SEAFARERS
Hong Kong-based Rev Canon Stephen Miller, The Mission to Seafarers’ regional director for East Asia and veteran of the missionary organisation, was recently awarded the International Seafarers Welfare and Assistance Network’s Dr Dierk Lindemann Welfare Personality of the Year Award for an individual in recognition of the “outstanding” work he does in looking after the […]