Industry braced for more challenges with crew change
The Sea Asia Virtual Preview webinar earlier this week - Industry Panel: Thriving Shipping Business through the Human Element – painted a picture of ongoing challenges for crew change despite unprecedented cross industry collaboration. Setting the scene moderator Nitin Marthur, Managing Director Commercial for Wallem, said that as result of the pandemic, “Seafarers have been treated as pariahs and number issues such as mental and physical well-being of crew needs to be proactively confronted. “Sadly it takes a pandemic for us to have dialogue about seafarers basic human rights and next ...