According to the Maritime Transport Agency of Georgia, Georgia can be considered as a “Safe Hub” for seafarers’ crew change and rotation.
Accordingly, Georgia is one of the first countries to designate seafarers as “key workers” and to have allowed crew change and rotation on its territory.
Officials stated that
It’s been more than a month since Georgia has been actively cooperating with the maritime industry worldwide and is involved in the facilitation of crew change process and repatriation of Georgian seafarers. Therefore, the time has come to move to the next stage and become more efficient in the process of seafarers’ rotation.
The country is slowly heading towards the status of “safe hub”, while representatives of the maritime industry and shipowners will be offered the possibility to safely send seafarers to access and transit through Georgia to reach the final destination.
