seafarer

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During the pandemic, seafarers have become the world’s forgotten essential workers.

SEAFARERS FROM COVID-HIT INDIA ARE STRUGGLING TO GET ON SHIPS—AND OFF THEMSAMANTH SUBRAMANIANJUNE 16, 2021QUARTZ

Maersk, Hanley said, has started paying its sailors bonuses to compensate them for remaining aboard ship at all times, even in ports that allow seafarers limited shore leave.

ESSENTIAL, INVISIBLE: COVID HAS 200,000 MERCHANT SAILORS STUCK AT SEATAYLOR TELFORD, JACOB BOGAGEAPRIL 9, 2021WASHINGTON POST

The United Nations called for the world’s governments to designate seafarers and other marine personnel as “key workers” during the pandemic.

ESSENTIAL, INVISIBLE: COVID HAS 200,000 MERCHANT SAILORS STUCK AT SEATAYLOR TELFORD, JACOB BOGAGEAPRIL 9, 2021WASHINGTON POST

She has picked up prescriptions for a seafarer who ran out of vital medication after his contract was extended.

ESSENTIAL, INVISIBLE: COVID HAS 200,000 MERCHANT SAILORS STUCK AT SEATAYLOR TELFORD, JACOB BOGAGEAPRIL 9, 2021WASHINGTON POST

Though sectors as diverse as vehicle manufacture and agriculture are reliant on maritime trade, seafarers are too few — and distant — to garner much attention.

ESSENTIAL, INVISIBLE: COVID HAS 200,000 MERCHANT SAILORS STUCK AT SEATAYLOR TELFORD, JACOB BOGAGEAPRIL 9, 2021WASHINGTON POST

One of the things that weighs on seafarers stuck at sea is the lack of control.

ESSENTIAL, INVISIBLE: COVID HAS 200,000 MERCHANT SAILORS STUCK AT SEATAYLOR TELFORD, JACOB BOGAGEAPRIL 9, 2021WASHINGTON POST

The ongoing crisis highlights how much of the world economy relies on seafarers, some of whom have gone a full year without taking a break or seeing their families because of the pandemic, Platten said.

PIRACY FEARS MOUNT AS SHIPS TAKE LONG WAY AROUND AFRICA TO AVOID BLOCKED SUEZ CANALSUDARSAN RAGHAVAN, ANTONIA NOORI FARZANMARCH 26, 2021WASHINGTON POST

From the most ancient times they have been the friends of the seafarer!

SOUTH AMERICA TO-DAYGEORGES CLEMENCEAU

He found the man Rait, a big, clumsy seafarer, and questioned him.

SPIES OF THE KAISERWILLIAM LE QUEUX

The morning was growing hot, and the good seafarer in the seat beside our friend seemed to grow very uncomfortable.

BETTY LEICESTERSARAH ORNE JEWETT

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