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Participants at the 3rd Annual Tristar Safety at Sea Conference held on December 8th were asked to work collectively as a team to continue to lobby, at all levels, for the welfare of all seafarers. This was the key message of Tristar Group CEO, Eugene Mayne, when he opened the event at the Indian Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai.
Tristar is a signatory to the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change, which recognises the shared responsibility of stakeholders to prioritise health and well-being of seafarers and ensure a resilient supply chain.
According to Mayne, “Global shipping depends on more than one million seafarers and, therefore, we must continue to lobby with governments and other stakeholders for a broader recognition of seafarers as key workers to enable them overcome issues of travel bans, embarkation and disembarkation restrictions or suspension of travel documents all of which have severely strained working conditions in the global shipping sector.”
The hybrid event was attended by leaders of the maritime industry, seafarers both ashore and on board, including members of various bodies such as the Nautical Institute, Institute of Marine Engineers, Institute of Marine Surveyors, Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, and IACS Class Societies and Flag Authorities.
The event had more than 1,600 views on YouTube when it was being live streamed. In addition, around 20 crew members of each Tristar vessel watched the event as it happened.
The main speakers were: Cerian Mellor, Seafarer Wellbeing Programme Coordinator at Shell; Andy Bowerman, Regional Director for Middle East & South Asia at The Mission to Seafarers; Manit Chander, HiLo Maritime Risk Management CEO; Joy Basu, SmartShip CEO; and Sanjay Verma, Decarbonization Solutions at Wartsila. They also participated in a panel discussion after their respective presentations.
