JAPANESE-CONTROLLED Ocean Network Express (ONE)
said
that around 15 per cent of its fleet of containerships made extra calls last
year to conduct crew changes.
The crew change crisis, which engulfed the shipping industry
left over 400,000 seafarers stranded on vessels after their
contracts expired at its height in 2020, remains a major issue today for
shipowners and managers, with an ever change mix of complex travel restrictions
from countries across the globe.
Shipowners and managers have taken to charter flights and
additional ports of call in an effort to repatriate crew and allow new
seafarers to join in their place.
In a presentation on its initiatives to tackle issues in container
shipping brought on by the covid-19 pandemic ONE said around 15 per
cent of its operating vessels had conducted extra calls for crew change in
cooperation with shipowners/crew in 2020, according to Colchester's
Seatrade Maritime News.
However. the problem continues to persist and recently ONE
joined the Neptune Declaration along with 326 other
companies and organisations in the shipping industry.
"With the launch of the Neptune Declaration on
Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change, we're joining stakeholders from across the
global maritime value chain to establish a collaborative and multi-stakeholder
response needed to solve the international crew change crisis," said Jeremy
Nixon, CEO of ONE.
"We must protect the two million seafarers across the
world's oceans and recognise the critical role they play as "key
workers" in the front line in transporting humanitarian products and
protecting the global economy."
Source : HKSG / Photo : ONE North America.
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