Lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic to keep seafarers healthy are not being incorporated in newbuilding designs, a shipowner said on Sunday.
Dimitrios Fafalios, president of Greek bulker operator Fafalios Shipping, said the shipyards had refused to incorporate improvements to ventilation systems on vessels despite experience showing that they would help limit the spread of infections on ships.
Fafalios highlighted the problem amid widespread concerns within the industry that investments in seafarers were failing to keep up with the scale of change within the industry.
