Affiliation:
1. College of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
2. The University of Tokyo, Japan
Abstract
COVID-19 has quickly spread in various parts of the world. A number of countries or cities launched “lock down” policies and stringent social distancing measures. As such, the maritime industry needs to rely on healthy and professional seafarers to support the emergency logistics operations with a short period of time. However, seafarers are classified as a COVID-19 high-risk and vulnerable group. In order to ease global severe pandemic situation, the cancellation of crew change policy has been introduced. Such policy intensifies the challenges of seafarers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, there is an increasing trend of seafarers may changing their working area or occupation and refusing to sail. As such, the study aims to conduct a comprehensive review of the global shipping market and seafarer market, investigate the current COVID-19 policies and measures affecting seafarers, explore the key challenges of seafarers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and suggest possible ways to improve the wellbeing and working conditions of seafarers under the COVID-19 context.
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