'I've seen grown men cry,' says Captain Tejinder Singh, who hasn't set foot on dry land in more than seven months and isn't sure when he'll go home.'We are forgotten and taken for granted,' he says of the plight facing tens of thousands of seafarers like him, stranded at sea as the Delta variant of the coronavirus wreaks havoc on shore.'People don't know how their supermarkets are stocked up.'Singh…
Disconsolate passengers stuck on a cruise ship moored in Lisbon's port for five days due to a COVID-19 outbreak began disembarking early on Monday, focused on clearing the final hurdle of a negative test before boarding homebound flights.The AIDAnova…
As the maritime world laments the treatment of seafarers during the COVID pandemic, and the general public generally ignores the call to designate seafarers as 'key workers' to help facilitate efficient crew changes globally, one British seafarer…
With the expectation that travel restrictions between Ireland and Britain will be removed soon, ferry company Stena Line is bringing its new vessel Stena Estrid back to its key Holyhead – Dublin route.It will replace the Stena Horizon, which…
