Mercuria CSR Report 2020 - Flipbook - Page 80
| OUR PUBLIC COMMITMENTS
• Recognize seafarers as key workers and give them
priority access to Covid-19 vaccines
NEPTUNE DECLARATION - SEAFARERS RIGHTS
• Establish and implement gold standard health
protocols based on existing best practices
Minerva Bunkering’s fleet management division MM
• Increase collaboration between ship operators and
Marine, in its role as a leader in promoting positive
charterers to facilitate crew changes
evolution in the maritime industry, has joined more
• Ensure air connectivity between key maritime hubs
than 300 companies and organizations in signing the
for seafarers
Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew
Change. Managing and operating one of the world’s
Minerva Bunkering is committed to the health and well-
largest and most modern fleets dedicated to bunkering
being of our team and to improving the quality of life
service, and employing more than 500 mariners, MM
for all crew working across the shipping industry. The
Marine has a responsibility to help ensure that the crew
integral role that seafarers play in facilitating global
change crisis is resolved as soon and effectively as
trade has never been more important. The Neptune
possible.
Declaration represents a call to action and addresses
some of the most pressing challenges facing seafarers
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The declaration defines four principal steps to facilitate
during the current era of Covid-19 restrictions and this is
crew changes and keep global supply chains functioning:
a call Minerva is stepping up to help answer.
