Connecting Crew During COVID-19
have also prioritized telemedicine as an area for service development with our application partners, at no cost to owners or the crew.However, with anxiety over coronavirus at a high pitch worldwide, those at sea are as entitled as any to the medical and policy updates disseminated by authorities and news media, whether aimed at seafarers themselves or their loved ones at home. In recent weeks, Inmarsat has also been working with a number of shipowners to find other ways of subsidizing increasing bandwidth demands from vessels. Soon we will announce further incentives that our wholesale partners can choose
New Zealand Promoting Maritime Careers
for local, national and international careers.” #NZcareersatsea and World Maritime Day will be celebrated at a maritime industry function in Wellington on September 16. It will include information on social media, websites, port visits, maritime school open days, advertising and news media. Martitme NZ has created an online photo wall for people in the maritime industry to post pictures of themselves and tell their stories (http://www.maritimenz.govt.nz/wmd). The wall also links people to details about how to train for those jobs on the Careers New Zealand website
