The COVID-19 pandemic has significant impacts on the shipping industry and on seafarers themselves, and IMO is working tirelessly at all levels to find solutions.<\/p>\n
Travel restrictions imposed by governments around the world have created significant hurdles to\u00a0crew changes and repatriation of seafarers<\/a>, which has led to a growing humanitarian crisis as well as significant concerns for the safety of seafarers and shipping. IMO has intervened promptly by urging its Member States to designate seafarers as key workers, so they can travel between the ships that constitute their workplace, and their countries of residence.<\/p>\n Click to download the\u00a0<\/strong>protocols<\/strong><\/a>, which set out general measures and procedures designed to ensure that ship crew changes can take place safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Circular Letter No.4204\/Add.14<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 Recommended framework of protocols for ensuring safe ship crew changes and travel during the COVID-19 pandemic.)<\/p>\n Seafarers have been collateral victims of the crisis, as travel restrictions have left tens of thousands of them stranded on ships, or unable to join ships. IMO has established a\u00a0Seafarer Crisis Seafarer Crisis Action Team (SCAT)<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to help them out of a variety of critical situations.<\/p>\n IMO has published a number of press briefings on key issues related to the pandemic, including crew changes, repatriation of seafarers and meetings postponement:<\/p>\n Source: imo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The COVID-19 pandemic has significant impacts on the shipping industry and on seafarers themselves, and IMO is working tirelessly at all levels to find solutions. Travel restrictions imposed by governments around the world have created significant hurdles to\u00a0crew changes and repatriation of seafarers, which has led to a growing humanitarian crisis as well as significant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-13162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime-safety-news","tag-maritime-covid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Day of the Seafarer and other events<\/h3>\n
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