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Seafarer crew crisis ‘only going to get worse’
Impact of high COVID-19 numbers in India among reasons for concern, says ICS official
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An International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) official warns American Shipper that the maritime industry’s ongoing crew change crisis is “only going to get worse.”
ICS explained that COVID-19 travel restrictions, as well as the growing list of countries banning crew changes for vessels that have called at one of the Indian subcontinent ports in the past 14 days, are the primary reasons behind this lingering crisis.
“There are 200,000 seafarers currently experiencing issues with crew change, primarily because of government-imposed travel restrictions,” said Guy Platten, secretary general of ICS. “This is a repeat of the seafarer crisis we saw during the early days of the pandemic when 400,000 seafarers were impacted. These men and women deserve