Temporary Advices
This FAQs answer sheet includes a number of questions from seafarers who have contacted the SeafarerHelp team.
New guidelines to avoid or manage an outbreak of coronavirus on board ships are now available.
We can pick up the Covid-19 by touching surfaces contaminated with the new coronavirus.
Psychotherapists are ready to put their knowledge into practice to help you manage what may be left now, so you can be #goodagain.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, several protection rules were imposed during Seamen's Club activities:
• Free carriage of the seamen from ship to club back and port.
• Frequent desinfection of the vehicles (handles, steering wheel, dashboard).
• Hydroalcoholic gel and masks available in the vehicles.
• Hand disinfection.
• Mask is mandatory.
• 4 seamen per vehicle.
• No seamen on the front seat (besides the driver).
• Carriage of seamen of a single ship (no mixing with the crew of another ship).
If you have arrived in Constanța and, together with your colleagues, would like to go out to the city, call us at +40 723 000-555. We are waiting for you!
Do not exchange money except at authorized exchange centers!
If you use individual transport, look for authorized taxi cars only and pay attention to the fare.
If you are out in town, it is preferable not to be alone.
Do not buy alcoholic beverages to bring them into the harbor.
Pay attention! There are some crooks who pretend to be from Seamen's Club. They will ask you for money in various forms and then disappear. Ignore them or call the police. Seamen's Club representatives will never ask you for money.
If you are not European, you can use ONLY GATE 1 to exit and enter in the port.
After a long and stressful period on the sea, a warm and friendly athmosphere is exactly what a seafarer needs.
Seamen's Club, in Constanța, and Seafarers' Center, in Agigea, offers you many possibilities to relax such as playing pool, table tennis or watching TV. Or, if you prefer, lets make a visit for the shopping or, why not?, a tour of Constanța.
On this occasion, we will visit a series of tourist attractions, emblematic places of Constanța and, if we are still in the summer season, we will visit the tourist resort of Mamaia.
The transport is free of charge for maximum 8 people.
OK .... To meet and spend a nice afternoon together, you have to let us know.
Seamen's Club from Constanța together with Seafarers' Center from Agigea are two centres run by the Romanian Port Welfare Committee. Both our centres offering various entertainment options for seafarers that visiting Constanța or Agigea.
To seafarers, the Seamen's Club is a home away from home. A place where they can leave their work behind them for a moment, have a chat with like-minded people, and contact their home base in comfort.
Yet, the centre fulfils even more important purposees. The employees and volunteers are dedicated to look after the well-being of all those people who are at sea for months on end, under difficult circumstances, and who are faced with unfamiliar situations in a foreign country. And they will help solve any problems these seafarers encounter. They are always welcome to call on us and we will help them wherever we can. Each month, our employees and volunteers receive some hundreds of people in the club building.
We offer: Transport to and from the ship; News on different languages; Internet Café; Billiards (Pool), Table Tennis and Gym; Satellite TV; Free Coffe, Tea and Soft drinks.
We can organize: Trips in Constanța centre with shopping and supermarkets; Sport activities; Trips to local sights (eg. The Old Town).
We can also organize various events together.
