Coivd 19

Crew Change Crisis Awful With Rising Demand for Cargo Shipping

  • The International Transport Workers’ Federation’s (ITF) Australian branch said seafarers were kept working on ships for as long as 18 months.
  • As a result, they are unable to set foot on land because of Australia’s COVID-19 quarantine restrictions.
  • This meant crews aboard vessels were unable to fly home when their contracts ended and replacement crews were unable to take their places for the ships’ next voyages.
  • The Mission to Seafarers Gladstone, a charity that aids international ship workers...

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Covid 19 Coupled With Other Factors Stifle Shipbuilding Future

  • The global shipping industry is in the midst of one of its biggest changes in a generation after the imposition of stricter environmental rules.
  • Ship owners face paying more for cleaner fuel, retrofitting ships with pollution-reducing scrubbers or even ordering new vessels.
  • Covid-19 has compounded the uncertainty by upending supply chains and stalling trade flows.
  • Orders to buy ships plunge to a 20-year low due to uncertain over environmental regulations and the economic fallout from the...

https://mfame.guru/covid-19-and-capital-crunch-stifle-shipbuilding-future/