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Cadets are missing out on sea time due to pandemic travel restrictions
09/10/2021 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/cadets-are-missing-out-on-sea-time-...

Restrictions on crew change and repatriations are impacting cadets at a time when the shipping industry desperately needs to recruit more young people.

Crews Are Abandoned on Ships in Record Numbers Without Pay, Food or a Way Home
Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson Oct. 8, 2021

Failing companies ditch vessels too expensive to repair or too difficult to sell, leaving behind cargo-ship castaways trapped in ports or offshore

CONSTANTA, Romania—An engineer stuck on a cargo ship abandoned in a Black Sea port has waited four years to get paid and go home.

US Merchant Marine Academy faces tough questions as multiple rape allegations emerge
Sam Chamber October 8, 2021 https://splash247.com/us-merchant-marine-academy-faces-tough-questions-a...

US authorities are investigating allegations of the rape of a then 19-year-old member of the class of 2022 at the US Merchant Marine Academy while serving her year at sea onboard a Maersk vessel.

France Seizes Ton of Cocaine and Detains Crew of Bulker
Oct 6, 2021 https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/france-seizes-ton-of-cocaine-...

IMO to Establish Regional Office for the Pacific Islands
October 6, 2021 https://www.maritimeprofessional.com/news/establish-regional-office-paci...

The Great Reboot--'Containergeddon': Supply crisis drives Walmart and rivals to hire their own ships
Lisa Baertlein and Jonathan Saul, Siddharth Cavale October 8, 2021 https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/containergeddon-su...

LOS ANGELES, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The Flying Buttress once glided across the oceans carrying vital commodities like grain to all corners of the world.

Support for any and every seafarer
By The Reverend Timothy Tunley https://www.missiontoseafarers.org/the-sea/support-for-any-and-every-sea...

The Mission is here for those at sea, whatever their sexuality or gender identity

Over the years I have helped to support several lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBT+) seafarers; their issues and joys are not much different from those of other seafarers in terms of their job at sea.

ITF will support Seafarers whenever owners fail to pay up
7 Oct 2021 https://www.miragenews.com/itf-will-support-seafarers-whenever-owners-fa...

The International Transport Federation (ITF) Australia welcomes the six-month ban placed by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) on the bulk Carrier MV Western Callao for underpayment of crew wages.

POEA bans employers of Filipino seafarers stranded in China
Bianca Angelica D. Añago October 6, 2021 https://www.bworldonline.com/poea-bans-employers-of-filipino-seafarers-s...

THE PHILIPPINE Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has blacklisted the employers of 29 Filipino seafarers stranded in Xiamen, China, who were abandoned after their respective vessels ceased operations in May.

Shipping group slams bill on seafarers
October 06, 2021 https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1909504/Cebu/Business/Shipping-group-...