“Be it commodities, foodstuffs or consumer goods – the transportation of merchandise by seaways is indispensible for prosperity in Germany and everywhere across the globe: We wish to thank the 1.5m seafarers who, invisible to most of us, safely carry goods and passengers over the seas every day. In doing so, they are often separated from their families for months, exposed to hazards like heavy storms or being threatened by pirates,” said Ralf Nagel, ceo of the VDR.

Nagel stressed the importance of ships as a place for living, working and socialising for seafarers, and stated

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All too often social media it seems is viewed with at best suspicion, and more alarmingly in some cases even fear. It is to some extent understandable that owners and managers do not really want pictures of casualties or videos of their crew doing Gangnam style in the engine room (as I saw the other day) going viral. But in the modern interconnected world there is not much they can actually do about it either.

It is worth noting that the world’s largest source of seafarers – the Philippines – is also one of the top

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