A Salute to the Merchant Marine Dinesh K Kapila Today let us salute the seafarers. It is our National Maritime Day too. This non glamorous profession is our lifeline. In fact the world’s lifeline as they move cargo around. Consistently. As of now when flights are cancelled the ships move on and the ports function. Round the clock. We need to reach out to the 4 lakh odd officers and 8 lakh odd sailors across the merchant marine sailing on tankers, bulk carriers and container ships etc. in this tough time they would not be even relieved as their tenure ends and they look forward to reuniting with their families. And think of a Master of a ship in case the relieving crew is available. What if if even one of them turn’ s out to be a Covid 19 positive, while at sea. Many companies and Masters would logically like to sail with the fit crew all through this stressful period. But at a cost of mental stress for the entire crew. At ports while docking the crew are getting paranoid about cat...
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