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Thome Group has been presented with the Secretary General award in a ceremony hosted by The Mission to Seafarers at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Singapore. The award was in recognition of the Group’s sustained efforts in improving seafarers’ welfare both at sea and ashore. The Thome Group was able to demonstrate how it has ...
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New Neptune Declaration Crew Change Indicator takes the temperature of the crew change crisis Data from top 10 ship managers on their seafarers is the basis of an indicator which provides up-to-date information on the impact of the crew change crisis and will allow for the monitoring of developments over time. The Neptune Declaration Crew Change Indicator is part of the ongoing efforts that a multi-stakeholder taskforce is undertaking to resolve the situation. Well into the second year of the coronavirus pandemic, the crew change crisis remains unresolved. Despite the concerted efforts by int...
Phtoto: Anglo Eastern Bjorn Hoojgaard The global crew change crisis resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic is far from over and is set to be even worse this year according to top ship managers. The new Neptune Declaration Crew Change Indicator surveying 10 leading ship managers presents what on the face of it a situation that looks to be far improved over last year, however, as border restrictions are reinstated with the Covid crisis in India and the spread of new variants senior executives say the picture is bleak. The first Indicator shows that by mid-April...
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 ...