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Filipino seafarers face discrimination, anxiety amid Covid-19 pandemic - Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
As travel and labor on land slowed down due to measures imposed by governmment to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), seafarers of the shipping industry are still hard at work transporting goods to different ports around the world.
Filipino seafarers are forced to toughen up as they face discrimination and fear caused by the invisible enemy.
Dick Andro Ferrolino, a Cebuano, shared to SunStar Cebu that he had experienced first hand being treated “badly” when their vessel docked at a port in New Zealand.
He narrated that some crane operators “seemed to be avoiding” him and his other companions.Posted On:7-Apr-2020
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Japan bans Filipino seafarers from entering the country - - Splash 247
Crew changes and ship deliveries in Japan just got a whole lot more challenging with the government issuing extraordinary travel bans on Friday covering 73 nations, including the Philippines.
Filipinos make up close to three quarters of all crew on the Japanese merchant fleet, the world’s third largest shipowning nation.
The travel ban from the hosts of the next Olympic Games also extends to another big crew source, China, but not India, meaning crew managers could be making urgent calls to Indian seafarer centres this week.
Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has stressed the bans extend to seafarers and aircrew.Posted On:7-Apr-2020
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UAE to allow crew changes in special circumstances - Seatrade Maritime News
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has lifted some of its restrictions on crew changes allowing for disembarkation in special circumstances.
GAC quoted a UAE Federal Transport Authority circular that it had decided to lift crew change restrictions gradually which in the first stage would see priority give to seafarers on board vessels with “special circumstances”.
Four categories would be given priority – seafarers with resident visas to the UAE stuck onboard vessels, crew of passenger vessels laid up in the UAE, seafarers no longer medically fit to work onboard, and those with urgent medical or humanitarian cases.Posted On:7-Apr-2020
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Will ports bar cargo ships with COVID-19-positive crew? - Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
Ports have yet to deny container, dry bulk or tanker ships the right to load or unload cargo due to coronavirus outbreaks among crew. But things could get much dicier in the months to come.
What happens will differ from country to country, and likely, from state to state and port to port. If seafarer infections follow the trajectory seen on land, trade flows will hinge on how each local authority responds to vessels with COVID-19-positive crew on board.
The secretary general of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), an agency within the United Nations, issued recommendations last week on how governments and national authorities should facilitate the continued free flow of maritime trade. The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and other industry groups provided the recommendations to the IMO.Posted On:7-Apr-2020
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Coast Guard: 93000 Crew Members Still Stuck on Cruise Ships Off United States - gcaptain.com
As cruise ships drawdown the number of passengers remaining on board, concern is growing
for the tens of thousands of crew members, mostly foreign nationals, who remain stuck on
board these ships in or near U.S. territorial waters.
The U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday revealed staggering new gures about the number of
passengers disembarked from cruise ships in the United States since the coronavirus
pandemic started to wreak havoc on the industry.
Over the last three weeks, the Coast Guard says it has processed more than 120 vessels,
collectively disembarking 250,000 passengers onto U.S. soil, including the 1,200 or so
passengers ooaded from MS Zaandam and MS Rotterdam in Port Everglades, Florida last
week.
The removal of passengers from these vessel comes after the international cruise ship industry
announced an initial 30-day suspension on sailings, with many of the major cruise lines now
extending the suspension through at least the end of April.
gcaptain.comPosted On:7-Apr-2020
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1 lakh Indian seafarers in the lurch due to lockdown - Bangalore Mirror
Thousands of miles away from home, they are living precariously on vessels across the world
Maninder Singh was supposed to finish his stint aboard a chemical tanker on March 18, when the vessel reached the US. But as the number of coronavirus cases
started shooting up globally, his company told him that he would not be able to “sign-off” and fly back to India, as originally planned. Since then he has been aboard
his vessel in Houston, working as usual, with about two hours of access to the Internet daily and no real idea of when he may next get home to Pune.
“Normally, I go home after my contract is over,” said Singh, a marine engineer, by email. “But now due to travel restrictions all over the world I have to stay on the
ship, away from my family. When people are under lockdown with their family, we are working on ships to maintain the supplyPosted On:7-Apr-2020
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Ship Crews Stuck in Lockdown Strain Global Supply Chains - BloombergQuint
Port restrictions and canceled flights are straining the ability to replace seafarers on board ships, further weakening global supply chains already snarled by the coronavirus pandemic.
Hubs like Singapore, Abu Dhabi and Shanghai have halted most crew transfers, while global lockdowns have complicated travel from the Philippines, which supplies about a quarter of the world’s seafarers.
At risk is the flow of goods like food, medicine and energy via commercial shipping, which accounts for about 80% of global trade. While unseen by most consumers, restrictions on crews are among the unprecedented challenges wrought by the virus, which has ground major economies to a halt.Posted On:7-Apr-2020
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