Page 21 - Crew Change News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

No more excuses for denying seafarers their rights Nautilus International, the Union for maritime professionals, has welcomed a ruling by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) that found governments have breached seafarers’ rights and failed to comply with several provisions of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) during the Covid-19 pandemic. The landmark ruling from the ILO, the first of its kind, sent a strong message to governments that they have failed in their duty of care towards seafarers under international law, including basic rights such as access to healthcare, repatriatio...

15 December 2020 10:04 GMT Updated  15 December 2020 13:12 GMT The holiday season is approaching fast for much of the world’s population and will be an opportunity for many to spend time with family and friends. But for thousands of seafarers, the ongoing crew-change crisis deprives them even of the hope of being home in time for the holidays. Many governments have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic by closing their borders and banning seafarers from coming ashore, even for medical treatment in some cases. These restrictions have led to many of the world’s seafarers becoming trapped...

INTERCARGO calls for seafarers to receive COVID-19 vaccine as a priority Following the worldwide news that vaccines for COVID-19 are now a reality, it is paramount that authorities give priority to seafarers in their vaccination programmes, says INTERCARGO, the organisation representing the world’s quality dry bulk shipowners. “As key workers, seafarers should be included in the early stages of a nation’s vaccination programme,” says INTERCARGO Chairman Dimitris Fafalios. “As a key element in the drive to reboot the world’s economy, seafarers should receive vaccinations quickly an...

Many remain missing. >> the explosion was the biggest. i saw the fire went up about 200, if not 300 feet high. >> and heard people saying that they were running in the street and tried to avoid fire. jumped in the lake. it's like you can see it in movies. >> this terrible. >> she has no news from my friends. i haven't heard from many of them. i can't say more than that. every where are everybody we're waiting for confirmation where. >> this an montreal, maine, and atlantic railway had been locked down. locomotive engineer. that engineer left for a crew change. according to the company. then so...

Go to mars? >> i think eventually we'll do that, i don't think it's in the next couple of years, we have to build up the mars vehicle, we have to do research, we have to have robotics to mars. the thing i want to see is what we have already invested $100 billion and that's doing the maximum amount of work on the space station. and we have our own vehicle. and what's more too, the russians are charging us for this. it's going to be $55.8 million for each of our astronauts that the russians put up and we'll have six persons on the crew, we'll have a crew change, i suppose twice a year, so that c...