More seafarers have requested assistance from the International Seafarers Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN), Nautilus International says.
The union’s general secretary Mark Dickinson told a European Shipping Week (ESW) conference in Brussels earlier today that the answer to current political and economic turmoil can be found within the shipping microcosm.
He told TradeWinds: “Barely a day seems to go by without some new story about stranded seafarers or substandard ships being found in European ports.
“It
