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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...

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