By Alastair Marsh (Bloomberg)
Terence Tsai started hearing about the growing labor crisis in shipping in a roundabout way. First, in March, an official at a ship management company in Hong Kong let slip that a captain had purposefully diverted a vessel under its control into the middle of the ocean to protest the treatment of himself and his crew.
Then, from the head of a large Asian shipping company, Tsai heard about a captain who wanted to attend his son’s funeral in Eastern Europe. It took more than two months and a mountain of paperwork to surmount Covid-era port restrictions and travel complications to get him on a flight back home.
Investors managing more than $2 trillion of assets are calling on world leaders to address the "unfolding humanitarian crisis at sea" where marine workers
Investors call for high-level action on humanitarian crisis at sea
Covid-19 strands 400,000 seafarers
Investors also want seafarers to be designated as key workers
Fidelity International is leading a group of 85 investors, managing assets worth over $2trn, calling on the United Nations to address the unfolding humanitarian crisis as 400,000 seafarers remain stranded at sea.
Several governments responded to the Covid-19 pandemic by closing their borders and banning seafarers from coming ashore, even for medical treatment in some cases. These restrictions have led to many.
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