Tag: Seafarers Awareness Week

Following Seafarers Awareness Week (6-12 July), the Maritime Charities Group and Merchant Navy Training Board joined forces and issued a practice guide focused on seafarers' mental health and wellbeing.

In light of the Seafarers Awareness Week (6-12 July), UK P&I Club issued a crew health advice to hep seafarers build resilience and recover quickly from stressful situations.

Seafarers UK has coordinated and promoted Seafarers Awareness Week annually since 2010, with the aim of raising awareness in challenging issues that the shipping industry has been facing and support seafarers. 2020's theme for UK Seafarers Awareness will be "Seafarers Safety."

Seafarers UK has launched this year’s Seafarers Awareness Week campaign, announcing the themes ‘Maritime Jobs at Sea and Ashore’ and ‘Sea Ports for Prosperity. The campaign will focus on promoting maritime career opportunities, both at sea and ashore, including in the UK’s thriving port industry.

InterManager is giving its full support to this week’s Seafarers Awareness Week (20-26 June), co-ordinated by Seafarers UK. “Maritime Jobs for Future Generations” is the theme, aiming to raise awareness of the many career possibilities the maritime world offers young people.

Seafarers Awareness Week

From 25 June to 1st July This week (25 June-1 July) is Seafarers Awareness Week and the UK's leading maritime welfare charity Seafarers UK alongside the International Maritime Organisation are asking people to 'remember a seafarer' during 2012 - a year which is already shaping up as a huge celebration of what it means to be British.As an 'island nation' we absolutely depend on seafarers and the work they do 24/7, 365 days a year. Many have tough working lives, facing the challenges of the sea and rough weather, long periods of isolation and rare opportunities to keep in touch with family and friends. Members of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines put their lives at risk to defend us. And sea fishermen have the most dangerous civilian job in the UK - 227 fishing boats were lost at sea between 2001 and 2010 and 657 fishermen were injured at work.No one in the UK lives more than 70 miles from the coast and 95% ofimports come by ship. But gone are the days when most British families knew at least one person who worked at sea, either in a merchant vessel, on a fishing boat, or serving in the ...