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Australia bans Taiwanese bulker for underpaying crew
Jason Jiang September 18, 2020 https://splash247.com/australia-bans-taiwanese-bulker-for-underpaying-crew/

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has banned the 2008-built 28,300 dwt handy bulk carrier AC Sesoda for deliberately underpaying its crew by more than AUD$118,000 ($86,368).

First global tripartite initiative to support countries for crew change gathers momentum
Sam Chambers September 18, 2020 https://splash247.com/first-global-tripartite-initiative-to-support-coun...

All at sea: Stranded ship crews are shipping's hidden Covid crisis
Olivia Poh 19 Sept 2020 https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/brunch/all-at-sea-stranded-ship-crews-a...

Covid-19 clampdowns have left ship crews stranded at sea, in an operational nightmare for shipping companies that also threatens supply chains

Manila to negotiate P12-M claim vs China ship
Charmaine A. Tadalan September 20, 2020 https://www.bworldonline.com/manila-to-negotiate-p12-m-claim-vs-china-ship/

THE PHILIPPINES will discuss with China the payment for 22 Filipino fishermen who were abandoned at sea after their ship collided with a Chinese trawler in June last year, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).

Search for missing livestock ship crew resumes
Mari Yamaguchi 19 Sept 2020 https://www.agrinews-pubs.com/2020/09/20/search-for-missing-livestock-sh...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Coast Guard ships resumed searching for a livestock ship and its 40 missing crew members off Japan’s southern islands after the efforts were suspended due to a typhoon.

Quarantined!
Betheena Unite September 18, 2020 https://mb.com.ph/2020/09/18/quarantined/

Four COVID-positive patients who were quarantined tell their stories

Seafarer was quarantined for a total of 90 days
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There’s nothing like home, they say. That’s why in the earlier part of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, medical and government authorities did not say no to COVID-positive patients choosing home isolation.

The search for the missing seafarers of GULF LIVESTOCK 1
ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO - | September 15,2020 https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/339861/the-search-for-the-missing-sea...

“Hana ni ta magawid ayu nga mapmaphod tapnu muntitiggawan tuu.”

It is the Ifugao translation of “We hope you come home safe so we could see each other again”, a message that my friend Maya Addug-Sanchez wants her brother, Captain Dante Addug, to receive and respond to.

127 stranded Filipino seafarers await repatriation — DFA
Sep 18, 2020 https://cnnphilippines.com/news/2020/9/18/127-stranded-Filipino-seafarer...

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, September 18) — The Department of Foreign Affairs is working to bring home 127 seafarers stuck on ships abroad due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Undersecretary Brigido Dulay.

Coronavirus and globalisation: the surprising resilience of container shipping
Michael Pooler and Thomas Hale 18 Sept 2020

Although the pandemic has brought chaos to the global economy, many lines are making more money

Holding a small axe in a white-gloved hand, South Korea’s first lady Kim Jung-sook cut the ropes tethering the HMM Algeciras and officially launched the world’s biggest container ship at a ceremony in April.

K. Oanh Ha, Jack Wittels, Khine Lin Kyaw and Krystal Chia
September 18, 2020

With 300,000 workers stranded on merchant ships, Bloomberg found dozens of labor violations that threaten seafarers’ safety, as well as the global supply chain.

On July 25, the Unison Jasper pulled into the Australian port of Newcastle carrying 31,000 tons of alumina bound for one of the country’s largest smelters. The ship had traveled around the world in the seven months since the pandemic began, but in Australia, authorities found a problem serious enough to detain the vessel.