The full repatriation of over 600 i-Kiribati seafarers to Tarawa, capital of the Republic of Kiribati, has been completed. Six seafarers have recently touched down in Tarawa, marking the end of a two-year period of repatriation blighted by … [Read more...]
Seafarers allowed to leave a ship to get vaccinated in NSW
Dr Kerry Chant, the Chief Health Officer in New South Wales, has signed an order allowing seafarers to leave a ship and "go further than 13 metres" from the vessel to get vaccinated against COVID-19. However, the seafarer must stay in the port … [Read more...]
UN bodies call on governments to alleviate seafarer crisis
Seafarers are still suffering unnecessarily because of government actions to mitigate the impacts of the COVID pandemic, four key UN bodies have said. The joint statement has been released by the International Labour Organization, the … [Read more...]
Shipping Australia calls for NSW controls on seafarer movements to be relaxed
Continued controls on seafarers arriving in New South Wales now seem to be rather pointless because they can no longer fulfil their policy goals and their monetary and non-monetary costs now outweigh their benefits, Shipping Australia has said in a … [Read more...]
Nearly two-thirds of seafarers now vaccinated against COVID
New January 2022 data from the Neptune Declaration shows that 59.8% of seafarers in its sample have been vaccinated against COVID. This is an increase of 10.3 percentage points since December 2021. By way of comparison, the proportion of the EU … [Read more...]