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Filipino seafarers face discrimination, anxiety amid Covid-19 pandemic
6 April 2020 https://ph.news.yahoo.com/filipino-seafarers-face-discrimination-anxiety...

AS TRAVEL and labor on land slowed down due to measures imposed by governmment to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), seafarers of the shipping industry are still hard at work transporting goods to different ports around the world.

Funding Campaign Launched for Developing World Seafarers
04-05-2020 https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/funding-campaign-launched-for...

A charity crowdfunding campaign has been launched to raise funds for developing world seafarers and their families that have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Seamen fled the ship in attempt to return home. New trend? VIDEO
Mikhail Voytenko April 5, 2020 https://www.maritimebulletin.net/2020/04/05/seamen-fled-the-ship-in-atte...

Meat smuggled to China each day by sea outweighs the amount seized in 3 months
6th April 2020

Frozen meat smuggling to Mainland China remains frequent despite multiple operations conducted by customs and marine police this year. An operation in January resulted in the death of three customs officers, the highest number of deaths in the line of duty per incident in the past four decades.

Ships Are Moving, but Exhausted Sailors Are Stuck at Sea Under Coronavirus Restrictions
Costas Paris April 5, 2020 https://www.wsj.com/articles/ships-are-moving-but-exhausted-sailors-are-...

Over 300 Pinoy cruise ship workers from Italy, Germany repatriated, arrive in Manila
April 6, 2020 https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/pinoyabroad/news/732774/over-300-pinoy-c...

More than 300 Filipino seafarers working in cruise ships arrived in Manila from Italy and Germany on Sunday, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said.

More than 120 Filipino seafarers from virus-hit Spain return home
Apr 03 2020 https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/04/03/20/more-than-120-filipino-seafar...

DFA repatriates 450 Pinoy cruise ship crew
Jerome Aning April 04, 2020 https://globalnation.inquirer.net/186558/dfa-repatriates-450-pinoy-cruis...

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) repatriated on Thursday and Friday three more batches of Filipino seamen and cruise ship crew totaling 450 from Spain, the Caribbean and Miami in the United States.

Australian seafarers get extension for certificate renewals during COVID-19 pandemic
April 5, 2020 https://www.miragenews.com/australian-seafarers-get-extension-for-certif...

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is providing Australian seafarers impacted by COVID-19 with an automatic six-month extension on their qualifications.

Canadian authorities deny entry to crew with suspected coronavirus symptoms
Sam Chambers April 2nd, 2020 https://splash247.com/canadian-authorities-deny-entry-to-crew-with-suspe...

The Public Health Agency of Canada has denied a car carrier travelling from Germany entry to the Port of Halifax.

On March 17, the Public Health Agency of Canada was notified that several crewmembers aboard the Siem Cicero had symptoms consistent with Covid-19.