In an ideal scenario, as many as 100,000 seafarers change ships every month during scheduled port stops, when vessels discharge and pick up freight. The United Nation s International Maritime Organization estimates that around 400,000 seafarers from across the globe are now stranded on ships, continuing to work but unable to be relieved, in a deepening crew change crisis which threatens trade and maritime safety. During a high-level event on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly (24 September), Captain Hedi Marzougui, who was in command of a vessel between December 2019 and May 2020, appealed to Governments to act to allow seafarers to come home.
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