Tag: maritime health

Maritime charity Stella Maris is highlighting the vital need for personal, human contact for seafarers in a world operating amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

In its most recent report, Allianz notes that the crew change crisis continues to have a major impact on the health and wellbeing of seafarers, with potentially long-term implications for safety.

Over 5,000 seafarers have been vaccinated by Cyprus, as the country took the initiative to offer Covid-19 vaccines to entire crews of ships that have the Cypriot flag, are porting on the country’s ports, and running any Cyprus-managed ships.

The Netherlands is piloting a scheme aiming to vaccinate seafarers of all nationalities that are calling at the port of Rotterdam.

On July 16, the World Health Organization (WHO) listed seafarers on cargo ships as a key group that should be prioritised for vaccinations. This was a move that ECSA and ETF applauded.

Nautilus International's general secretary Mark Dickinson and CEO of the UK Chamber of Shipping (UKCS) Bob Sanguinetti have signed a joint letter to the Secretary of State, asking that the country actively offer vaccinations to seafarers visiting British ports.

After the successful COVID-19 vaccination of Belgian seafarers that started on 2 June, Belgium is moving a level up as the Vaccination Task Force and the Interministerial Conference on Public Health started a vaccination campaign from 26 July for all seafarers arriving in a Belgian port, regardless of their nationality.

Belgium will boost its seafarers vaccination campaign at its major ports from July 26, using mobile medical vaccination teams to ships at berth to provide the vaccinations directly on board.

The World Health Organization has now named seafarers as transportation workers that should be prioritized for COVID-19 vaccination.

The American P&I Club is further extending the validity PEME certificates to 1st September 2021, for seafarers originating from Bulgaria, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Philippines, Poland, Romania, the Russian Federation and Ukraine.