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Major transport organisations warn: Governments reaction to Omicron variant puts supply chain at risk of collapse

by The Editorial Team
December 3, 2021
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World leaders’ reactions to the Omicron variant are putting transport workers and the global supply chain at greater risk of collapse, warn international transport organisations and unions representing road, air and sea transport.

More specifically, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the International Road Transport Union (IRU), and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), have jointly called for governments to not reimpose border restrictions that further limit the freedom of movement of international transport workers and learn from the lessons of the last two years.

Cross-border transport workers including seafarers, air crew and drivers must be able to continue to do their jobs, and cross borders without overly restrictive travel rules, to keep already ailing supply chains moving

the associations said.

Currently, one week since the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the new Omicron strain of COVID-19 as a “variant of concern”, at least 56 countries have reimposed varying degrees of travel restrictions.

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The transport bodies call for an end to the “rushed and fragmented approach to travel rules by governments.”

Now is the time for heads of state to listen to industry leaders and workers, by taking decisive and coordinated action together to ease strain on the supply chain, and support an exhausted global transport workforce during the busy holiday season

the state, expressing also their frustration that governments were reneging on clear steps issued to world leaders in September to:

  • Guarantee the free and safe movement of transport workers.
  • Prioritise transport workers to receive WHO-recognised vaccines.
  • To adopt lasting travel and health protocols developed by industry for seafarers, drivers and air crew, as endorsed by WHO, ILO, IMO and ICAO
  • To create globally harmonised, digital, mutually-recognised vaccination certificates and processes for demonstrating health credentials (including vaccination status and COVID-19 test results), which are paramount to ensure transport workers can cross international borders.
  • Increase global vaccine supply by all means at our disposal in order to expedite the recovery of our industries.

Furthermore, a crisis meeting with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) to discuss the recommendations, and the impact that travel bans and other restrictions in response to the Omicron variant will have on transport workers and the global supply chain is scheduled for Monday 6th December.

This feels like groundhog day for our transport sectors. There is a real and legitimate fear that unless coordinated action is taken by world leaders, we will see a return to the peak of the crew change crisis in 2020 where more than 400,000 seafarers were impacted by unnecessarily harsh travel restrictions

Guy Platten, Secretary General, International Chamber of Shipping, warns.

In addition, Willie Walsh, Director General, IATA, mentioned that “after nearly two years of dealing with COVID-19, we should have progressed beyond these knee-jerk, uncoordinated, Pavlovian-like responses.”

The same governments that have blocked global vaccine access are now the first to lock down their borders to keep the Omicron variant out. Instead of pursuing a global solution to this pandemic, their decisions further risk supply chain collapse

adds Stephen Cotton, General Secretary, ITF, while Umberto de Pretto, Secretary General, IRU, noted that “COVID history is repeating itself with governments unilaterally changing hundreds of rules affecting cross border transport workers within a matter of hours.”ply chains functioning. They, and all of us who rely on their service, deserve much better.”

This news comes at a time when the crew change Indicator for December marked an improvement of the situation and a stably increasing vaccination rate among seafarers.

According to Global Maritime Forum’s Indicator, good improvements in seafarer vaccination rates, eased travel restrictions and even regional decreasing infection rates are showing some light at the end of the tunnel for the crew-change crisis and confirm the trend that the crisis has been alleviating.

Namely, the number of seafarers onboard vessels beyond the expiry of their contract has decreased to 4.7% from 7.1% in the last month, and the number of seafarers onboard vessels for over 11 months has also decreased to 0.7% from 1.0%. So far, these are the lowest numbers recorded by the NDCCI since it was first published in May.

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