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Some 300,000 migrant merchant sailors have been stranded on vessels at sea or in ports around the world. Many are stuck just off the coast of Southern California.

@RonWLATimes reports on their experience: latimes.com/business/story…
Abrorizki Geraldy Aulia is part of the new generation that moves more than 80% of the world’s raw materials, parts & merchandise on commercial cargo fleets. He has already traveled farther by ship than most people ever will.

Still, he feels powerless.
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Maritime union protections say Aulia should sail no more than 11 months a year on a contract, but the Indonesian native has worked 15 straight months without a break — setting off in summer 2020 without the vaccine he dearly wanted.

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Aulia is never allowed to leave his ship.

Like hundreds of other sailors stuck in the massive floating traffic jam off the Southern California coast, he had been long quarantined on board and unable to get vaccinated.

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Imagine weeks at sea or at anchor without the ability to contact loved ones, living off of a crew food budget that amounts to $7.50 per person, per day.

Imagine living on a cramped 680 foot by 98 feet ship months longer than you agreed to.

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Many seafarers answered the call in 2020 when weeks of pent-up consumer demand created a surge of ocean-traveling goods.

It strained all parts of the global supply chain, which you can read more about here: latimes.com/business/story…
Many seafarers haven’t been vaccinated against the coronavirus. But because they haven’t been vaccinated, the crews have been barred from leaving their ships to get vaccinated if the opportunity was presented.

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“Our profession is quite difficult,” an officer told @RonWLATimes. “It’s even more stressful because we have to stay onboard for such long periods of time. It’s a long voyage and we worry about the pandemic everyday.”

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