Sailors' Society has launched a crisis appeal for sailors in the Red Sea

While much has been reported on supply chain issues and the financial costs of rerouting ships, there is an acute human cost with seafarers caught up in the conflict.

Dry bulk and container sailors and operators are involved transporting more than 90% of everything used and owned in the western world. This job has many of their vessels moving through the Red Sea and past the gulf of Aden. Presently they face the very real danger of explosive drones and missiles - and shipping companies have reached out to Sailors’ Society’s Crisis Response Network to request mental health and wellbeing support for crew members who are at risk.

Sailors' Society CEO Sara Baade said: "Seafarers did not sign up to be shot at. Any seafarer approaching the Red Sea today is going to be extremely anxious and diverting around the Horn of Africa instead brings its own challenges with the tropical cyclone that has pounded Mauritius and fear of piracy around Somalia and the Gulf of Guinea. At the very least they will be delayed returning home to loved ones who they have already been separated from for many months.

Read the article online at: https://www.drybulkmagazine.com/shipping/22012024/sailors-society-has-launched-a-crisis-appeal-for-sailors-in-the-red-sea/