Clarity required from cross-ministerial briefs, but indications suggest that UK could be the first country to implement the industry’s 12-point plan to lift barriers to crew changes

With the regulatory agenda temporarily on ice, a short-term delay to decision making timelines is now inevitable. But as the macro economic forecasts darken, boardrooms recalibrate to survival mode and governments grapple with mounting debt burdens, the momentum achieved towards zero carbon shipping in 2019 starts to look like a distant memory and indeed priority 

Despite high-level industry interventions urging governments to recognise the growing crisis of seafarers stranded at sea due to coronavirus restrictions, crew changeover plans have so far failed to gain political traction

Even amid the cashflow crunch that will likely take some casualties, there are those preparing for the upside that will come once the global supply chain eventually unplugs its current bottlenecks and global trade returns. We have to believe that Covid-19 hasn’t structurally changed the shipping markets

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