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Coronavirus and seafarer mental health – the good news
April 5, 2021 https://splash247.com/coronavirus-and-seafarer-mental-health-the-good-news/

There’s no vaccine against poor mental health writes Johan Smith from Sailors’ Society.

‘We are not sure when we will get home’: the stranded seafarers who kept world trade afloat during Covid
Dean Kirby April 2, 2021 https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/stranded-seafarers-who-kept-world-tr...

Hundreds of thousands of hidden keyworkers are still enduring what has been described as a humanitarian crisis as they continue to move essential supplies across the globe

What Suez Canal crisis should tell the world about seafarers
3 Apr, 2021 https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3128033/what-suez-canal-cri...

*Global shipping crisis threw a spotlight on the rarely told story of the hardships and poor conditions endured by seafarers, at least a quarter of them from the Philippines

The only practice to guarantee seamen vaccination safety
Mikhail Voytenko April 3, 2021 http://www.maritimebulletin.net/2021/04/03/the-only-practice-to-guarante...

Freight rates spike as Asian cargo ships jam US West Coast ports
SHUJI NAKAYAMA and HIONA SHIRAIWA April 3, 2021 https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Transportation/Freight-rates-spike-as-A...

Container shortage grows as ports struggle to handle import surge

Lorenzana to Chinese ships: Weather is fine, ‘umalis na kayo diyan’
Apr 3, 2021 https://www.rappler.com/nation/lorenzana-to-chinese-ships-julian-felipe-...

'The Chinese ambassador has a lot of explaining to do,' says Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana

Egypt may file $1bn claim for Suez Canal calamity
Adis Ajdin April 2, 2021 https://splash247.com/egypt-may-file-1bn-claim-for-suez-canal-calamity-2/

Egypt could be lining up a $1bn claim in damages after the 20,388 teu Ever Given giant container vessel caused a headline grabbing traffic jam in the Suez Canal for almost a week.

Cargo Overboard, Intense Rolling: The Risks Of Fully Loaded Mega-Container Ships
Jackie Northam April 1, 2021 https://www.npr.org/2021/04/01/983017153/cargo-overboard-intense-rolling...

It would be tempting to hope the recent stranding of the 1,300-foot, 220,000-ton Ever Given container ship in the Suez Canal was a one-off — just a case of a very big ship getting stuck in a narrow waterway.

Bouchard Transportation Pays Whistleblower in Port Aransas Barge Explosion
Mike Schuler April 1, 2021 https://gcaptain.com/bouchard-transportation-pays-whistleblower-in-port-...

New York-based Bouchard Transportation and three former and current company officials have paid $375,000 in restitution to a whistleblower who the company fired after cooperating with a federal investigation into a deadly barge explosion off Port Aransas, Texas in 2017.

Cosco and PPA disagreement over Piraeus shipyard facilities
David Glass | Mar 30, 2021 https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/shipbuilding/cosco-and-ppa-disagreemen...

Greece’s main opposition party has charged the government and the Cosco Shipping-managed Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) with ignoring conditions of a long-term concession agreement between the two regarding the upgrading of the port’s shiprepair facilities.