Panic At Sea: Over 100, 000 Sailors Stuck On Abandoned Cargo Ships Without Pay Or Food

Our supply chains are breaking down on a very basic level. While there s a widespread shortage of goods and many products are not arriving where they need to be when they need to be there, a shortage of workers is spreading across every corner of the industry and global leaders are now being warned if conditions do not improve the world s ocean transport system is going to collapse. Hundreds of thousands of sailors have left their jobs since the onset of the health crisis due to chronic underpayment, lack of assistance, and exceedingly long work hours. To make things worse, many were unable to enter their countries and come back home after having finished their contracts simply because they haven t been vaccinated, in what was known as the crew change crisis. Now, thousands of sailors are currently stranded at immense cargo ships, living in the worse possible conditions you can imagine. They have been forgotten by their leaders, their country, and their employers. The UN calls it a humanitarian crisis. And