Ports Australia signs Neptune Declaration
Ports Australia has signed the Neptune Declaration, joining more than 800 companies worldwide with a shared responsibility of collaboration to overcome the seafarer crew change crisis.
Hundreds of thousands of seafarers who bear the load of roughly 90% of world trade have been stranded aboard ships throughout the pandemic because of the widespread inability for crew changeovers to occur or for shore leave to be granted.
As per Global Maritime Forum’s website:
The Neptune Declaration urges the implementation of four main actions to address the crisis:
– Recognize seafarers as key workers and give them priority access to Covid-19 vaccines
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Actions carried out by the AMP ensure that seafarers on Panamanian flag vessels and their nationals on foreign flags return to their homes
The Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) communicates that the actions taken to safeguard the labor rights of the eight (8) Panamanian crew members who were on the ship “NISSI COMMANDER I” of the Mongolian Ship Registry, as well as the eighteen (18) crew members of other nationalities who were on board ships belonging to the Panama Ship Registry, came to a good end allowing them to return to their homes alongside their families, with the payment of their owed wages.
Will the pandemic provide an opportunity for positive change in the cruise industry?
“The Covid-19 pandemic has created a unique opportunity for cruise line companies to revise their corporate culture, reinvent their business models, enhance their human resources management, develop and embrace the risk and crisis management strategies, and adopt sustainable development,” say the experts. In this image from 1 May 2021, passengers queue to be tested for Covid-19 before embarking on board the Costa Smeralda cruise liner docked in Savona, near Genoa in Italy.
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“The Covid-19 pandemic has created a unique opportunity for cruise line companies to revise their corporate culture, reinvent their business models, enhance their human resources management, develop and embrace the risk and crisis management strategies, and adopt sustainable development,” say the experts. In this image from 1 May 2021, passengers queue to be tested for Covid-19 b
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A Panamanian-flagged bulk carrier has been banned from Australian ports over appalling working and living conditions on board, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said.
The 235-meter Movers 3, operated by Qatari-based Aswan Shipping, was detained at anchor off Weipa in far north Queensland on March 4, 2021 due to several mechanical and survey issues, and for the poor conditions on board. Outstanding issues, namely the replacement of poorly maintained ballast tank head vents and the updated ship surveys, were resolved after a lengthy port State control detention AMSA said.
On April 29, AMSA released Movers 3 from detention and immediately issued it with a ban, prohibiting it from entering an Australian port for 18 months.
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