Red Sea crisis: Suez Canal is not the only ‘choke point’ that threatens to disrupt global supply chains
Red Sea crisis: Suez Canal is not the only ‘choke point’ that threatens to disrupt global supply chains Sarah Schiffling, Hanken School of Economics and Matthew Tickle, University of Liverpool The air strikes against targets in Yemen by the US and UK military
Partnerships for Seafarers Mission in Panama and Costa Rica
Article audio (courtesy of Don Sheetz) by The Rev'd Ian Hutchinson Cervantes (Mission to Seafarers - Regional Director – Latin América and Port Chaplain - Panamá) We inhabit a moment when war, pandemic, the politics of amoral “national (self) interest”, and
Book Review: The ILO Maritime Labor Convention, 2006 (MLC): Securing international social standards of seafarers’ working conditions
Review by Dr. Jason Zuidema, NAMMA Janna Vaudey, Das ILO-Seearbeitsübereinkommen, 2006 (MLC): Sicherung der internationalen Sozialstandards von Arbeitsbedingungen der Seeleute. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2022. This German-language book is a revised edition of a doctoral dissertation submitted in 2020 in the Faculty of Law
Panama to begin vaccinating foreign seafarers
by Jason Zuidema, NAMMA/ICMA In a Press Conference, Nov. 23, Luis Francisco Sucre, Health Minister of Panama, announced that vaccines will now be available for seafarers visiting the country on Panama-flagged vessels. Mr. Sucre specified that doses of the AstraZeneca