Tag: maritime health

It is known that due to their nature of work, seafarers are often exposed to difficult working conditions, causing them job stress. Namely, job stress relates to a serious physiological condition that causes adverse mental and physical reactions to the body, such as the well-known panic attacks.

Standard Club and Sailors’ Society’s Wellness at Sea issued ten tips focusing on how to deal with the mental health impacts onboard amid the pandemic.

According to the Director General of Health Services, foreign national seafarers/sea marshals should obtain approval from the Foreign Ministry to enter Sri Lanka and should be quarantined in an isolation centre.

Recognizing the special circumstances seafarers experience in accessing vaccination due to their working conditions, NHS issued a new guidance focusing on crew vaccination.

Transport Canada issued updated guidance regarding the mobility of asymptomatic, presumed non-COVID-19 carrying seafarers during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Effective from 9 August, the Hong Kong Department of Health issued "Updated Exemption Conditions and Quarantine Arrangement for Visiting Vessels". The Government has adopted a risk-based approach and re-categorised overseas places into high-risk, medium-risk and low-risk groups.

The Neptune Declaration Crew Change Indicator for August revealed that only 15.3% of seafarers are vaccinated, according to the first vaccination data.

Crew services specialist Boers has launched seafarer vaccination programmes at German and Belgian ports, as shipping executives warn of onboard COVID-19 outbreaks because mariners are not getting vaccines quick enough.

Höegh Autoliners together with 800 organisations signed the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing, which calls on government bodies to recognise seafarers as key workers and give them priority access to Covid-19 vaccines.

In support of the IMO's Neptune Declaration and the welfare of seafarers around the world, the Shipping Deputy Ministry of Cyprus is making vaccinations available to seafarers.