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India: Coronavirus ' Repatriate stranded seamen, seafarer groups request Goa Chief Minister - The Hindu
Seafarer groups on Saturday met Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to seek his assistance in ensuring the repatriation of thousands of Indian seamen stranded on ships across the world.
The Goan Seamen Association of India (GSAI) President Frank Veigas said the government needed to come up with a contingency plan. “The plan’s execution lies with the State. They have to convince the Prime Minister. Just the way we are repatriating foreign nationals, getting our own countrymen employed on various ships is also important,” he added.
Estimating that about 15,000 Indians work on cruise ships and other merchant vessels, the GSAI emphasised that at least 8,000 of these seamen were from Goa. “It is the crew on cruise liners, that have been hit the most,” said GSAI representative Dixon Vaz. “The crew have already been in quarantine for so many days. They can be flown back in batches of hundreds, which their companies will do. They could be easily accommodated in hotels in a green zone,” he added.
The GSAI said countries like the Philippines and Indonesia had evacuated hundreds of their crew from vessels off Portugal and Italy over the last few days.
“Indian seamen have been left in limbo by the country’s ban on incoming flights,” Mr. Vaz observed.Posted On:13-Apr-2020
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Covid-19 Any port in a coronavirus storm Nearly 3000 passengers and crew of the MSC - Newsroom
It s one o’clock in the morning, deep in the hot and claustrophobic lower decks of the cruise liner MSC Magnifica, when a pastry chef named Anura Bandara Herath decides he’s had enough.
The 31-year-old is one of the 1000-plus crew that keep the enormous 95,000-ton ship afloat. There are the public faces of MSC’s marketing, like the ship’s master, the charismatic Captain Roberto Leotta. There are the waiters and bar staff and dancers and personal trainers whose photos appear in every holidaymaker’s Facebook feed.
And then there are those below decks. Workers from Italy, Britain, eastern Europe, India, Indonesia, even two or three from Samoa. The engineers. The cleaners. And the night shift pastry chefs whose ornate food sculptures greet the guests as they arrive for breakfast each morning. Like 31-year-old Anura.
None of them – not the 1760 passengers, not the 1030 crew – has been allowed off the ship for a month. The last places any of them stepped ashore were Rarotonga and New Zealand; since then, they have been steaming in circles, trying to find a port where they can safely disembark.Posted On:13-Apr-2020
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India: Food for stranded ships� crew - Telegraph India
A social organisation on Saturday handed over food items to the crew of four ships who have not been allowed to deboard for nine days by a section of Nadia residents who fear they might spread the coronavirus.
The Telegraph on Saturday reported about the plight of the 36 crew of a private vessel management company who had been cooped up in their ships at Guptipara ghat in Santipur since their arrival from Kochi on April 2.
After reading about the plight of the crew members, a four member team from the social organisation Ichhey visited two of the ships and handed over for all 36 crew members 80kg rice, 60kg potatoes, 20kg red lentils, 15 litres mustard oil, 8kg soybean nuggets, 40 packets of biscuits and 40 packs of puffed rice.
Polson Ghosh, a finalyear law student and secretary of Ichhey, said: “We read about the troubles being faced by the crew…. The inhuman behaviour of the local residents is shocking. I discussed the issue on our WhatsApp group and pooled in money to procure essential food items for the ships’ crew. Later, four of us visited the ships and delivered the items to them.Posted On:13-Apr-2020
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Stranded Filipino seafarers go home - Gulf Today
wo hundred and eight Filipino male and female sailors are expected to arrive Sunday evening at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay City, Metro Manila.
All are “still employed” by the Norwegian Cruise Lines Holding, Ltd, manned the MV Norwegian Jade, SS Nautica and SS Voyager and whose repatriation from the UAE was coordinated with the Philippine Embassy in Abu Dhabi and the Philippine Consulate General in Dubai.Posted On:13-Apr-2020
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Virus has seafarers stranded - NWAOnline
Port restrictions and canceled flights are straining the ability to replace sailors on board ships, further weakening global supply chains already snarled by the coronavirus pandemic.
Hubs like Singapore, Abu Dhabi and Shanghai have halted most crew transfers, while global lockdowns have complicated travel from the Philippines, which supplies about a quarter of the world s sailors.
At risk is the flow of goods like food, medicine and energy via commercial shipping, which accounts for about 80% of global trade. While unseen by most consumers, restrictions on crews are among the unprecedented challenges wrought by the virus, which has ground major economies to a halt.
"Most ports have stopped crew changes as part of a concerted effort to prevent the spread of the virus," Philippine Transmarine Carriers Chief Executive Officer Gerardo Borromeo said. "Our problem is trying to solve a complex logistics issue of getting crew onto limited flights to countries that will allow such changes at their ports."Posted On:13-Apr-2020
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Stella Maris Supports Seafarers on the COVID-19 Front Line - The Maritime Executive
With seafarers in the front line of maintaining the world’s supply of food, fuel and medical supplies and equipment through the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, Stella Maris (Apostleship of the Sea) port chaplains are continuing to provide them with practical help and pastoral care.
Its 230 chaplains, who work in over 300 ports in 41 countries, are using the telephone, social media and the port authorities to keep in contact with seafarers and to provide them with sim cards so they can contact their families, toiletries and other basic items.Posted On:13-Apr-2020
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Barbados: Most anchored cruise ships operating with minimal crew - Nation News
MOST OF THE SHIPS anchored off Barbados are now operating with skeleton crews.
Barbados Port Inc. chairman Senator Lisa Cummins said crew members had been boarding chartered flights and returning home.
“For the last month, passengers have been getting repatriated and once they were gone, the crews have also been getting repatriated all over the world by way of charter flights. Last night [April 11] most of the crew of the Norwegian Spirit left on two charter flights,” she said.
The Norwegian Spirit, which arrived last week, would usually have a crew of 965. Cummins said some other ships had as much as 1 500 but they were almost all down to around 200.
“The ships cannot be abandoned so the minimum crew stays behind until they receive instructions as to what to do next. Until then the ships will stay at anchor and that is the same worldwide,” she said.Posted On:13-Apr-2020
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