According to an article published in the Economist, it isn’t COVID-19 that has trapped merchant seamen on their ships. It is official indifference
90% Trade FlowsAs you read this, over 60,000 cargo ships are on the high seas, laden with iPhones from China, dresses from Bangladesh, beef from Argentina, oil from the Gulf and much, much more. The industry likes to say that it is responsible for “90% of everything”. Indeed, its ships are the circulatory system of global commerce and their 1.2m...
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