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As many as 1,000 merchant seafarers are trapped on vessels near Ukrainian ports while fighting rages all around them. Click the tile below to read the Lloyd’s List article.

Food, fuel and medical supplies are running low on ships stuck in Ukraine, unable to leave due to the fighting. Despite an initial flurry of successful evacuations from shipowners and […]

As an estimated 1,500 people on about 100 ships are believed stranded in Odessa and other ports, seafarers’ charities have launched an emergency appeal. Click the tile below to read […]

The Government of Ukraine has sent the attached communication, dated 18 March 2022, with the request that it be circulated by the Organization.

Please use the online form to submit information on ships stranded in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. This information will be received by the IMO Secretariat Emergency Task Force.  If […]

Click the tile below for GWO’s statement.

The war in Ukraine has demanded flexible ways to pay seafarers from Ukraine and Russia. An existing payment system, developed for the cruise sector, offers a way out for crew […]

General guidance in relation to shipping involving Russia/Ukraine and Russian interests. 

If you are fleeing the war in Ukraine and coming to the European Union, you will find key information about your rights with regard to crossing the border into an […]

Click tile below to read the article from WEST

A Notice to all Shipowners, Masters, Manning Agents and Seafarers from gov.uk

This page collates updates, publications and other material relevant to the current crisis in Ukraine. The resource page will be updated with additional material as the situation changes. Members are […]