Tag: Stella Maris

Stella Maris has launched its Life at Sea Report 2024 on World Mental Health Day, emphasizing the importance of seafarers' mental health and wellbeing.

Stella Maris has announced the launch of a financial resilience training programme for the Ukrainian seafarers and their families. The course will cover the basics of personal finance, future financial planning, managing income, expenses and savings, and a guide to pensions.

Cases of seafarers abandoned by shipowners without money, support, or the means to get home have reached alarming levels around the world, according to Stella Maris. 

Stella Maris has warned of the escalating dangers faced by seafarers navigating through the Red and Black Seas en route to Ukraine.

Maritime charity Stella Maris has launched of a new version of its Port Chaplain Directory, a tool which helps seafarers get access to pastoral, practical and spiritual support wherever they are in the world.

Tim Hill, who took over as CEO of Stella Maris in June 2023, discusses the key elements that characterize crew happiness and points out that despite the many positive practices so far, some areas still need more attention and effort.

The Office for Labor of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBC) has made an international appeal to facilitate the immediate release of 26 crew members including 16 Indian nationals on the ship ‘MT Heroic Idun’ held in captivity in Guinea for nearly three months.

Stella Maris launched a Seafarers Support Service; a platform that will provide a programme of remote, ongoing psychological consultation for Ukrainian seafarers and families.

Stella Maris announced that the plight of a crew from a bulk carrier who had been denied shore leave and whose work contracts had been extended, has finally ended, following their intervention.

Stella Maris is working with crewing agencies to ensure that Ukrainian seafarers who have sought refuge and residency in other countries in western Europe remain employable in the longer term.