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Little hope of returning home for seafarers stranded at sea amid lockdown
Shreegireesh Jalihal | May 13, 2020 https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/little-hope-of...

Limited supplies, seasickness and a repatriation plan that comes with several complications has made life particularly hard for this lot

Seafarer died of heart attack, health certificate shows
May 12, 2020

A HEALTH certification from the City Health Office (CHO) showed that the seafarer who was found dead inside a ship docked in Barangay Tablon, Cagayan de Oro City over the weekend died of heart attack and not related to Covid-19.

Findings from the Scene of the Crime Operatives (Soco) in Northern Mindanao showed that the patient died of acute myocardial infarction, the medical term for heart attack.

The certification further stated that the cause of death was non-infectious.

300 Pinoy seamen from UK come home; local infections top 11,000
May 11, 2020 https://www.bworldonline.com/300-pinoy-seamen-from-uk-come-home-local-in...

A TOTAL of 299 seafarers from the United Kingdom have come home amid a novel coronavirus pandemic that has sickened 4.2 million and killed more than 284,000 people worldwide, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Monday.

Coronavirus: Filipino cruise ship workers serve quarantine in luxury, but joblessness awaits
Reuters 11 May, 2020 https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3083889/coronaviru...

Another Crew Member Has Died on Another Cruise Ship
Emrys Thakkar May 11, 2020 https://www.cruisehive.com/another-crew-member-has-died-on-another-cruis...

A crew member has died on Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas, the fourth to die on different ships within the past 10 days, not from COVID-19.
Four Crew Members Have Died

Two crew abducted from cargo ship off Equatorial Guinea
Jason Jiang May 11th, 2020 https://splash247.com/two-crew-abducted-from-cargo-ship-off-equatorial-g...

The 1993-built 8,900 dwt cargo ship Rio Mitong was attacked by pirates off Malabo, Equatorial Guinea on Saturday and two crew members were kidnapped.

Why are many of our seamen still stranded at Manila Bay
TIMI NUBLA ANCX | May 11 2020 https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/culture/spotlight/05/11/20/why-are-many-of...

They’re tired, homesick, and have been on quarantine for days on end. After bringing in so much money to the economy, is this the welcome they deserve?

Fleas to flu to coronavirus: how ‘death ships’ spread disease through the ages
Joy Damousi May 11, 2020 https://theconversation.com/fleas-to-flu-to-coronavirus-how-death-ships-...

One of the haunting images of this pandemic will be stationary cruise ships – deadly carriers of COVID-19 – at anchor in harbours and unwanted. Docked in ports and feared.

Philippine shipping company pays $45,000 for sinking Vietnamese boat
Nguyen Quy May 11, 2020 https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/philippine-shipping-company-pays-45-00...

The owner of a Philippine cargo ship has paid $45,000 in compensation to a Vietnamese fisherman for ramming and sinking his boat on May 1.

Cargo ship sailors press-ganged into keeping the world's trade afloat
Karen McVeigh 11 May 2020

‘Ticking time bomb’ as contracts aren’t honoured and ports stop crews going ashore even for urgent medical care