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Confitarma joined the campaign #ShoutOutForSeafarers
It is aimed at speeding up the vaccination of all seafarers
June 22, 2021
Confitarma recalled that last year a similar campaign had drawn attention to the crew change crisis and that, one year later, the number of seafarers affected by health restrictions imposed by governments to the Covid-19 pandemic has halved to 200,000. However, due to new variants of the virus, coming from especially from India, in many countries we are witnessing the reintegration of travel bans. The shipowners' confederation italy therefore highlighted the urgent need to allow access for seafarers to vaccines, considering that more than half of the of the international maritime workforce comes from developing countries development that have limited stocks of vaccines.
The initiative can also be supported through the social networks, using the hashtags #ShoutOutForSeafarers and #FairFuture4Seafarers and #DayoftheSeafarer.
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Confitarma recalled that last year a similar campaign had drawn attention to the crew change crisis and that, one year later, the number of seafarers affected by health restrictions imposed by governments to the Covid-19 pandemic has halved to 200,000. However, due to new variants of the virus, coming from especially from India, in many countries we are witnessing the reintegration of travel bans. The shipowners' confederation italy therefore highlighted the urgent need to allow access for seafarers to vaccines, considering that more than half of the of the international maritime workforce comes from developing countries development that have limited stocks of vaccines.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
