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The Liberian Registry becomes 1st ship registry to sign the Neptune Declaration February 3, 2021, by Jasmina Ovcina The Liberian Registry has become the very first ship registry to sign onto the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change. The Liberian Registry joins over 300 owners, operators, and maritime organizations in this very important worldwide call to action to end the unprecedented crew change crisis caused by COVID-19. Signatories of the  Recognise seafarers as key workers and give them priority access to Covid-19 vacci...

'Sea Prison': COVID-19 Has Left Hundreds Of Thousands Of Seafarers Stranded at 8:33 am NPR On a chilly January morning, the Rev. Mary Davisson climbs up the stern ramp of the Tonsberg, an enormous ship bobbing in the murky waters at the Port of Baltimore. Davisson, the executive director and port chaplain of the Baltimore International Seafarers' Center, has spent much of her nearly two-decade career helping foreign crew members arriving in port, whether it is giving them a lift into town to buy personal items or just enjoying a coffee with them. Nowadays the visits are sho...

Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Star Bulk Carriers Corp. Announces That It Has Become a Signatory of the “Neptune Declaration ... Star Bulk Carriers Corp.January 28, 2021 GMT ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Star Bulk Carriers Corp. (the “Company” or “Star Bulk”) (Nasdaq: SBLK), a global shipping company focusing on the transportation of dry bulk cargoes, announced today that it has become a signatory of the “Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change”, a worldwide call to action to en...

Jeremy Nixon, ceo of ONE Ocean Network Express (ONE) said that around 15% of its fleet of containerships made extra calls last year to conduct crew changes. The crew change crisis ,which engulfed the shipping industry left over 400,000 seafarers stranded on vessels after their contracts expired at its height in 2020, remains a major issue today for shipowners and managers, with an ever change mix of complex travel restrictions from countries across the globe. Shipowners and managers have taken to charter flights and additional ports of call in an effort to repatriate crew and allow new ...

UK Chamber of Shipping signs Neptune Declaration The UK Chamber of Shipping, the voice of the UK shipping industry, has joined global industry and human rights leaders, including A.P. Møller – Mærsk, BP, BW, Cargill, COSCO, DOW, Euronav, MISC, NYK, Rio Tinto, Shell, Trafigura, Unilever and Vale, in signing the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change in a worldwide call to action to end the unprecedented crew change crisis caused by COVID-19. Hundreds of thousands of seafarers from across the globe have been left stranded working aboard ships beyond the expiry of their in...