Nearly half a million seafarers now waiting to embark/disembark, says ICS

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There are about 200,000 seafarers waiting to leave their ships and another 200,000 waiting shoreside to replace them, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has claimed. Crew changes across the globe have proved difficult to implement because of Covid-19 restrictions imposed on travel by national governments, making it hard to get seafarers back home from…

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