human rights and seafarers

A Captain’s Plea To End Crew-change Crisis

  • An anonymous master mariner writes about the distressing reality behind the phrase ‘crew-change crisis.
  • The secret captain writes about this, as his exhausted crew wait to go home.
  • Deep down, they all know that if they were a priority (or even a concern) they could get the whole thing moving within weeks.
  • The secret captain adds that they would also return the industry to some version of normality.

A recent news article published in Trade Wind News deals with the painful experiences of a...

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Welfare of Seafarers Key for Sustainable Shipping

  • Sustainability in shipping is not just about the environment and Michael Grey highlights the issue of human rights of seafarers and the conduct of charterers.
  • Sustainability of the supply chain is rather more than the green credentials of the transport system and that the welfare of those who drive the ships, trains and trucks.
  • It is also (for shipping) a belated recognition that just as the human rights of garment workers in sweat-shops need to influence the purchase of finished clothes.
  • The...

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