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Crew Change Crisis hits Australian smelter Operations
Baibhav Mishra - August 5, 2020 https://seanews.co.uk/seafarers-2/crew-change-crisis-hits-australian-sme...

Tampered Covid-19 test results set back crew change in Singapore
Yashika F. Torib August 5, 2020 https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/08/05/business/maritime-business/tamper...

Deadly port explosion rocks Beirut
Grant Rowles August 5, 2020 https://splash247.com/deadly-port-explosion-rocks-beirut/

Authorities in Lebanon are busy counting the number of dead and injured people after an explosion at Beirut Port in Lebanon that has rocked the entire city.

Witnessing winds of change in shipping
Yashika F. Torib August 5, 2020 https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/08/05/business/maritime-business/witnes...

AS a shipping vetarn for 40 years, Capt. Jones Tulod witnessed how time and technology plunged the industry into sweeping and permanent changes.

Free seafarer ‘wallet’ for crew
Michelle Wiese Bockmann 29 Jul 2020

The aim of the wallet is to demonstrate seafarers are safe for on and off boarding, and port authorities and immigration authorities can see their full health status

Seafarers can download a free, web-based wallet to monitor and track their health status, which developers say mirrors UN protocols

THE company IDFlu already offers a commercial service to shipowners and managers but is making this part available for fre.

Filipino seafarers stranded in Uruguay plead to come home
Ana P. Santos 3 August 2020 https://rappler.com/newsbreak/in-depth/filipino-seafarers-stranded-urugu...

MANILA, Philippines

In a video message, seafarers say they are left with scant resources for food and water, and still do not know when they would be allowed to return to the Philippines

In the Deep End: How Seafarers Are Redirecting Security Consciousness
Jessica K. Simonds August 3, 2020 http://cimsec.org/in-the-deep-end-how-seafarers-are-redirecting-security...

Cargo workers stranded at sea thanks to coronavirus are stressed to the breaking point
Theresa Braine Aug 03, 2020 https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-cargo-crew-strand...

They had to shave their heads for lack of shampoo, have teeth pulled by their captain for lack of a dentist, and have not seen their families in over a year.

LNG ship-to-ship transfer resumes in Subic
Henry Empeño August 4, 2020 https://businessmirror.com.ph/2020/08/04/lng-ship-to-ship-transfer-resum...

Subic Bay Freeport—Subic port authorities have allowed the resumption of ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) here, but the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) said members of the ship’s crew will not be allowed to disembark.

Coronavirus: Dozens test positive for Covid-19 on Norwegian cruise ship
3 August 2020

At least 41 passengers and crew on a Norwegian cruise ship have tested positive for Covid-19, officials say.

Hundreds more passengers who travelled on the MS Roald Amundsen are in quarantine and awaiting test results, the company that owns the ship said.

The ship, which belongs to the Norwegian firm Hurtigruten, docked in the port of Tromso in northern Norway on Friday.

Hurtigruten has halted all leisure cruises because of the outbreak.