the humanitarian crisis that's left 400,000 seafarers stuck on cargo ships
- Written by Christiaan De Beukelaer, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
It has been rightly described as a humanitarian crisis and a modern form of forced labour.
In the early months of 2020, stranded cruise ships became a stark symbol of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Now it is seafarers stranded on cargo ships.
There are more than 50,000 such vessels, with about 1.6 million crew.
Before the coronavirus crisis, about...
