The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has estimated that there are some 300,000 seafarers trapped working aboard ships due to the crew change crisis caused by Covid-19 border and travel restrictions, with an equal number of unemployed seafarers ashore waiting to sail. ITF general secretary Stephen Cotton said that “governments are the biggest barrier to…
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