A charity supporting seafarers has called for industry-wide collaboration to improve welfare in shipping after a survey found that seafarers have experienced an overall decline in happiness since last year.
The Mission to Seafarers, which conducts its Seafarers Happiness Index report every quarter, found that overall happiness declined in Q1 2023 when compared to the last three quarters of 2022, with an overall drop from an average of 7.69 out of 10 in Q4 2022 to 7.1 in Q1 2023. However, the...