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 TradeLens eBL, recently approved by the International Group of P&I Clubs (IGP&I), will digitise bills of lading, along with other critical transportation documents, on the blockchain in an effort to vastly increase speed of original bill of lading issuance, transfer and surrender.
While the process was traditionally manual and time-consuming, it is hoped that the digital system will allow it to occur accurately and securely in minutes.
Harish Pandeya, managing director at Swift Cargo, said: “Going beyond our objective of digitalisation and providing timely and superior service levels to our clients, TradeLens will also help us reduce operational overheads and errors by enabling automation of significant parts of the documentation process.”
Eliminating the risks and costs caused by lost or delayed documents has been a significant concern for the shipping, logistics and trade finance industries.
The blockchain-based platform allows direct connectivity between all stakeholders while Swift Cargo will have total end-to-end visibility for import and export cargo documentation, sourced from a single platform.
Bimal Kanal, head of TradeLens in South Asia, added: “By eliminating the risk of lost documents, forgeries, delays and charges by using a blockchain enabled TradeLens eBL, we are confident Swift Cargo will not only improve their service offering to their customers but reduce the cost and time of printing and couriering documents to share with their supply chain partners.”
The TradeLens platform, which was jointly developed by IBM and Maersk, publishes more than 3m events per day and the ecosystem includes direct connections to more than 220 unique organisations.
