Tag: wellness at sea

ISWAN conducted a research concerning the wellbeing for crew onboard and the challenges arising from isolation, highlighting the importance of social interaction and the key role it plays in seafarer's life.

While it is up to global regulatory enforcers to come up with an actual solution to resolve the crew change crisis, which is a red zone for seafarers’ mental health in these difficult days, maintaining mental wellbeing is mostly a personal business.

Since the start of the pandemic, crew wellness has topped the industry agenda with international shipping bodies, unions and associations vowing for a fairer treatment of seafarers. What actions has the industry taken to resolve this humanitarian crisis? Was it enough?

Marking approximately eight months since World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic and a public health emergency of international concern, it is of vital importance for shipowners, operators, crew and relevant authorities to tend their focus on ship hygiene, in order to avoid a possible outbreak onboard.

The COVID-19 crisis has posed many challenges to the industry stakeholders across the globe, especially to seafarers who are sailing with the ships extending their contracts due to crew change issues as well as to those who stay at their homes and cannot join vessels, facing financial difficulties.

As part of this year's #SeafarersDeliveringChristmas campaign, Inmarsat is offering free extra time for seafarers to catch up with their loved ones from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day. 

The World Maritime University issued a report focusing on the experiences of seafarers during the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing the challenges they face and identify factors that may mitigate the negative impact of the pandemic.

Following the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Maritime NZ issued a guidance on how seafarers can stay protected onboard international vessels amid the outbreak.

ISWAN issued a new guide focusin on the importance of mental health that has to be maintained within the shipping industry, following the imbalance the pandemic caused, the the impact it had on the seafarers.

With World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988, ITF urges that standing up for transport workers with HIV is shipping industry's responsibility.