Ships in port around Australia may sound their horns at 12:00 local time today, Wednesday 8th July, in support of stranded seafarers.
Rules and regulations to control COVID-19 have had the effect of trapping cargo mariners at sea. Some individual seafarers have been stuck at sea for well over a year. A lack of available flights has also caused some seafarers to be stranded...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/ships-to-sound-horns-in-support-of-stranded-seafarers/
Port Authority of New South Wales has scrapped its restrictions on vessels arriving from Iran, Italy, China or South Korea.
The easing of restrictions was effective as of Friday 26 June 2020.
Prior to PA NSW’s 26 June notice, PA NSW was formerly delaying pilotage services to ships that had transited from mainland...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/pa-nsw-scraps-restrictive-rules-on-vessel-arrivals/
Victoria’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) yesterday (18 June 2020) issued comprehensive guidance allowing seafarers to be exempt from going into a mandatory 14-day quarantine.
Like rules issued by the other States and Territories, Victoria’s rules follow a familiar pattern: there is a general rule (in...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/victoria-eases-restrictions-on-crew-changes/
COVID-19 has imposed a series of adverse impacts on shipping and world trade, ranging from the relatively minor to the extraordinarily serious.
Shipping Australia has produced a special report on the COVID-19 regulatory, financial market, and legal matters relevant to shipping and trade. It can be found both in the latest edition of the “Shipping Australia” magazine and we’ve also...
Cases of seafarers being denied medical care for conditions unrelated to COVID-19 have been reported to the International Chamber of Shipping.
The body, which describes the news as “alarming”, has observed that there are cases of seafarers being refused entry to port or, in some cases, being denied evacuation for over four days.
“This is simply not acceptable,” said Guy Platten, Secretary General of the ICS.
In a recent webinar, held on May 28 by the World...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/seafarers-denied-medical-care-for-serious-conditions-ics-warns/
The Al Kuwait livestock carrier (IMO:9590931) which arrived in Fremantle with crew suffering from COVID-19 has been subject to some loud and alarmist commentary from people who should know better.
From the information publicly available it seems that the crew and the officials acted correctly, with proper notifications being made in a timely manner to the appropriate authorities.
When it was understood that there were people aboard with a potentially serious medical...