Victoria's Workplace (Additional Industry Obligations) Directions (No 18) require that in-scope workers undertake surveillance testing for COVID-19, as listed in the Surveillance Testing Industry List. All ports of entry workers who are in scope … [Read more...]
NSW officials and maritime sector meet to tackle COVID
After 10 months of the COVID-19 crisis and plenty of uncertainty over the management of maritime workers and seafarers, medical care, seafarer crew changes and access to medical care, real consultation started yesterday. NSW public health … [Read more...]
Deliver seafarers home for Christmas
Santa Claus, or, if you prefer, Father Christmas, is a much-known character beloved by kids the world over for bringing them wonderful presents. Santa, of course, ain't real (sorry kids!). The people who really do bring you wonderful presents … [Read more...]
Against the odds – maritime industries work to protect seafarers’ health
Australians can be reassured that ocean freight shipping companies are acting to protect the health of waterfront workers at the international, national, company and ship levels. The most pressing issue right now is the unreasonable intransigence … [Read more...]
New crew-change policy is neat, plausible… and wrong
Shipping Australia is very concerned about the ongoing crisis caused by a lack of crew changes. Hundreds of thousands of people are trapped at sea and hundreds of thousands of people are waiting (without pay) to go to sea. It is a humanitarian … [Read more...]