The Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) has started implementing strict precautionary measures to prevent the entry of the deadly 2019 novel coronavirus (nCoV) into the country.
A Filipino crew member who passed away onboard the cruise ship Carnival Ecstasy more than a week ago has been identified as Michael Bryan Agadier Abinsay, 32, from San Narciso, Zambales, Philippines.
Australia’s maritime union have criticised what they describe as the government’s “non-existent” response to the threat of the Wuhan coronavirus at the country’s ports.
The first month of 2020 has seen numerous threats to free trade and the flow of cargo around the world, including escalating tensions between the US and Iran and Brexit.
The Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006, which permits deductions from seafarers’ wages to their union bodies, has stressed the need by each maritime administration to regulate private crew agencies that indulge in illegal deduction of wages.
