Polaris Shipping donates quarantine clothing to protect seafarers | No 24|2021.01.11 |
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source Polaris Shipping Co., Ltd |
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From the left, participants at the delivery ceremony are Yong-ki Jeong, the head of Maritime Division from Polaris Shipping, Tae-gil Jeong, the Chairman of the Seafarers' Union, and Sung-yong Park, the Chairman of the National Ship Management Sailors' Union
Polaris Shipping donates quarantine clothing to protect sailors
Amidst growing concerns on COVID-19, Polaris Shipping (CEO Wan Jung Kim), its management and staff members delivered 25,000 sets of quarantine suits for seafarers to the Federation of National Marine Crew Workers' Unions (Seafarers' Union, Chairman Tae-gil Jeong) at the Busan Marine Center on January 11, 2021.
The delivery was arranged via mutual collaboration by the leading bulk carrier Polaris and its corresponding labor union with an aim to protect seafarers who have been working vigorously to transport strategic resources including energy, quarantine goods, vaccines, and etc. for public.
In particular, the parties agreed to donate goods to the federation in light of the foreign crew from small and medium-sized shipping carriers which may not be best equipped with protections due to challenging conditions.
“We appreciate thoughtful gestures of Polaris and the Union to protect lives of seafarers and will do our best to fight against the COVID-19 by distributing the suit in a prompt manner”, Chairman Jeong from the federation mentioned, |