More than 300 companies and organizations from around the world are throwing their support behind efforts to resolve the ongoing crew change crisis by signing the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change. The Neptune Declaration defines four main actions to facilitate crew changes and keep global supply chains functioning during the pandemic, including recognizing seafarers as key workers, prioritizing them for vaccines, and establishing gold standard health protocols based on best practices. Unfortunately with the detection of new variants of COVID-19 governments are backsliding and bringing in more restrictions.
