Shipping associations and carriers are concerned that the failure to deal with the current seafarer situation, leaving up to 400,000 crew stranded abord ships in some cases for over a year, could also lead to a failure to vaccinate crew in the coming months.
Crew change issues have dominated much of the industry’s Covid-19 response, with some limited success as some countries opened their borders to crew changes under strict rules. However, the international community’s failure to designate...
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