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A plan to save 150,000 trapped seafarers, put together by global maritime bodies, has been issued by the United Nations agency, the International Maritime Organization (IMO). A population of 150,000 trapped people is about equivalent in size to the population of Cairns or Darwin.
Some crews have already spent many months at sea and they urgently need to be repatriated.
“Shipping is vital to the maintenance of global...