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Liverpool Seafarers centre backs IMO crew-change crisis comments after UN meeting

30th September 2020Ben

Charity backs ‘key worker’ call but questions whether this will have desired impact Says there is also urgent need to consider impact…

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Liverpool Seafarers Centre urges UN to act for stranded seafarers on World Maritime Day

24th September 2020Ben

Ecumenical charity Liverpool Seafarers Centre is calling on the United Nations to make World Maritime Day, on Thursday 24th September, a time of…

Liverpool Seafarers Centre makes fresh plea to get stranded crews back home

14th September 2020Ben

Ecumenical charity Liverpool Seafarers Centre has renewed calls to repatriate stranded seafarers, echoing the International Maritime Organization’s plea to governments ahead of…

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Liverpool Seafarers Centre warns red tape is causing repatriation hold-ups for thousands cast adrift

28th July 2020Ben

Ecumenical charity Liverpool Seafarers Centre fears many of the 300,000 seafarers stranded on ships may be reluctant to attempt to return home…

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Liverpool Seafarers Centre calls for more commercial flights to get stranded seafarers home amid suicide fears

14th July 2020Ben

Ecumenical charity Liverpool Seafarers Centre (LSC) has welcomed a commitment to get stranded seafarers home, but says a greater number of commercial…

Liverpool Seafarers Centre backs urgent repatriation calls on Day of the Seafarer 2020

24th June 2020Ben

Liverpool Seafarers Centre is backing a call for urgent action for seafarers on the frontline of the pandemic as the world prepares…

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Liverpool Seafarers Centre welcomes Pope’s support for seafarers during pandemic

19th June 2020Ben

Liverpool Seafarers Centre has welcomed a message from Pope Francis to seafarers, reassuring them they are not alone or forgotten during the…

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Liverpool Seafarers Centre urges support to mark Sea Sunday on 12th July

16th June 2020Ben

Liverpool Seafarers Centre has called on churchgoers of all denominations to remember seafarers in their prayers this Sea Sunday. In its appeal,…

Liverpool maritime groups join forces to put stranded Indian seafarer back in touch with family

14th May 2020Ben

An Indian seafarer stranded thousands of miles from home because of the Covid-19 crisis has been able to reconnect with his family…

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Liverpool Seafarers Centre: Filipino and Indian seafarers ‘feel like prisoners’ on own ships

6th May 2020Ben

Liverpool Seafarers Centre (LSC) is reporting the urgent plight of seafarers from India and the Philippines who ‘feel like prisoners’ aboard ship…

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