News / Call to 'designate seafarers as key workers' to keep supply chains moving

23/03/2020

The shipping industry has called for seafarers to be designated as key workers, to keep vital maritime supply chains flowing.

In a joint letter to the the UN, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) say the world’s governments must ...

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