As Ports Slowly Open, Ships Look to Replace Exhausted Seafarers

As Ports Slowly Open, Ships Look to Replace Exhausted Seafarers
Krystal Chia Jun 16 2020

Ravi Nagar hasn’t seen his wife and 3-year-old son in eight months. That’s because he was stuck on a tanker shuttling between the Middle East and Asia. Nagar was among the roughly 200,000 seafarers stranded on ships because of tight port restrictions and canceled flights due to Covid-19. But the 40-year-old captain is lucky. On Friday, he disembarked from The Chief in Singapore and headed directly to the airport, wrapped head-to-toe in protective gear. “Everybody is struggling at this moment,” he said in an interview Friday at the airport before boarding a flight to Mumbai. “I want my son to hug me.”

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