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By TAYLOR TELFORD AND JACOB BOGAGE | The Washington Post | Published: April 9, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. Brian Mossman says he has read Moby Dick nearly 200 times. The 61-year-old captain of the container ship Maersk Sentosa says he revisits the Melville classic nearly every voyage, because each time reveals something new about the people who take to the sea: people like him and the two dozen merchant mariners on his crew.
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A declaration marking merchant sailors as key workers during the pandemic is a major step towards safeguarding their mental health at sea, shipping experts said.
Signed by more than 750 organisations in February, the Neptune Declaration prioritised seafarers in the same way as health workers, putting them at the front of the queue for Covid-19 vaccinations.
But with many crews unable to come into ports due to travel restrictions, isolated sailors remain unprotected against the coronavirus.
Getting shore leave is almost impossible now so seafarers are constantly on the move
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Neptune outlined the main actions needed to resolve the crew change crisis, which is not only putting seafarers in a desperate situation but also threatening the safety of shipping and world trade.