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.
The situation on the X-Press Pearl deteriorated dramatically today. The three-month old, 2,700 teu ship, carrying 25 tons of nitric acid, caught fire on Thursday off Colombo Port with Sri Lanka deploying aircraft and navy vessels to assist in firefighting.
26 May 2021 | Splash247
A new commercial port could be created at Longue Hougue (Guernsey Island, Channel Islands UK) as part of a GBP 360 million plan to revamp the island's harbours.
14 May 2021 | Cruise Mapper
The Biden administration temporarily eased century-old U.S. shipping requirements so a single foreign tanker could transport gasoline and jet fuel to the East Coast, where the Colonial Pipeline outage caused tanks to run dry.
14 May 2021 | gCaptain
”To better understand and address the crew change crisis, there is a need to have access to accurate data that will allow stakeholders to monitor and respond to the situation."
14 May 2021 | Global Maritime Forum
A wide-ranging set of guidance has been issued to help enterprises using shipping services to protect the human rights of seafarers, as hundred of thousands are still stranded on ships due to COVID-19 imposed travel restrictions.
11 May 2021 | Marine Insight
Mercy Ships announced this week that the world’s largest civilian hospital ship Global Mercy has now completed deep water sea trials, one of the final milestones before departing for service in sub-Saharan Africa.
11 May 2021 | gCaptain
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is calling on governments to treat seafarers as key workers and to cooperate to make vaccines available to them at the earliest opportunity, to allow them to pass through international borders and keep global supply chains moving.
11 May 2021 | ISWAN
There are many questions in shipping industry which seem to be mysteries of the ancient shipping times like Why a ship’s bottom is mostly painted red, or Why ship’s speed is measured in Knots, or Why ships use Port and Starboard instead of Left and Right and a lot more.
10 May 2021 | The Maritime Post
Vaccination being made mandatory before joining ship is just one of the numerous challenges being faced by Indian seafarers as the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to overwhelm the country’s health infrastructure.
9 May 2021 | Seatrade Maritime News
The world’s seafarers’ unions say the world’s biggest brands have no excuse not to audit their supply chains and issue directives to suppliers on crew change, now that a new human rights due diligence toolkit has been launched today.
9 May 2021 | ITF Seafarers
Talks to increase the minimum wage at the International Labour Organization (ILO) have broken down as seafarers call proposed 3% increase a “slap in the face”.
4 May 2021 | Container Management
Swift Cargo, one of India’s leading non-vessel owning common carriers (NVOCCs), has joined the TradeLens blockchain-based platform to use its electronic bill of lading (eBL) product, hoping to eliminate delays related to documentation.
4 May 2021 | Container Management
Trade unions and employers associations in the maritime industry have taken advantage of this month’s meeting of the Special Tripartite Committee of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC, 2006) to call on States to recognise seafarers as ‘key workers’.
4 May 2021 | Seafarers' Rights
Unions across the world are outraged to learn that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal minority government had teamed up with Canada’s Conservative opposition in the early hours of Thursday morning to progress legislation to rip away Montréal dockworkers’ right to strike.
2 May 2021 | ITF
Among the most commonly used terms in shipping are the two: consignee and consignor. While these two may be generally seen as ‘the one who receives’ and ‘the one who sends’ there is more to it.
1 May 2021 | Marine Insight
Seafarer Mohammad Aisha is tonight boarding an airplane to return to his native Syria, ending a four-year battle where he was forced to live on an abandoned ship in the Suez Canal while the vessel waited to be sold.
1 May 2021 | ITF
May Day is when workers of the world stop and reflect. We’re seeing so many human rights abuses — workers being denied their right to free association, free speech being suppressed. It is the responsibility of us all to defend our fundamental human rights.
1 May 2021 | ITF
