Shipping industry warns that half of world’s sailors are from countries where vaccine rollout is slow, reports Financial Times.
Welfare disaster for seafarersOf the world’s 1.7m seafarers, 900,000 are from developing nations where vaccines won’t be accessible for all till 2024.
Man Platten, secretary-general of ICS, stated that three ports in China had prevented sailors from disembarking as they had not got Covid-19 jabs, foreshadowing a possible repeat of crew change for seafarers.
“If our staff...
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