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.
2014-05-24 | Oana Ungureanu, Blogger
The sailors who arrive here do not have many possibilities to visit the surroundings because the port is quite far from any human settlement and, in these conditions, the trip to the city would require a great effort both in time and financially.
Fos sur Mer is a small port belonging to the Port of Marseille. Sailors who arrive here do not have many opportunities to visit the surroundings because the port is quite far from any human settlement and, in these conditions, moving to the city would require too much effort - both financially and time. necessary. That’s why a visit to Seamen’s Club can be a simpler and less expensive way to spend your free time, especially if it can bring you closer to your family, through a phone call or the internet.
Seamen’s Club in Fos sur Mer is called Mission to Seafarer and is the smallest such club I have ever visited. It is located inside the port, at the end of the quay, it is very easy to spot for anyone and does not involve any means of transport, since the movement to it is based only on their own forces. To make sure the sailors don't get lost, the mission volunteers even drew arrows on the quay to guide you to the club door. These arrows were placed on the quay in the first place to show the sailors the way to follow in order to observe the safety measures inside the port and to protect them from possible dangers.
Depending on where the boat is located at the quay, the journey to the club takes between 10 and 20 minutes.
This building is no larger than two adjacent containers, and the interior is very modest, offering only a small buffet with soft drinks and snacks (for a fee), wireless internet and a pool table.
The volunteers who work here probably have other jobs and, because of this, they manage to get to the Club only after 4.30 pm and almost never on Mondays. Even if the club is closed, the internet works non-stop and can be accessed both from the immediate vicinity of the building and from the large glass anteroom which is permanently open.
Oana Ungureanu, Blogger
