The Ukrainian prime minister has given the go-ahead for locals to work as seafarers abroad, a significant fillip to crewing levels which have been hit hard in the six months since Russia invaded Ukraine, leading to a mass mobilisation of all men to help in the war.
Kitack Lim, the secretary-general of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is due at the port of Odesa this morning having spent yesterday at Romania’s Constanta port.
Lim is expected to board a ship and speak to seafarers and get an understanding of how the one-month old Black Sea Grain Initiative is progressing.
