{"id":2999,"date":"2020-09-22T12:59:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T12:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marereport.namma.org\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2025-04-01T00:52:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T00:52:22","slug":"seafarers-ministry-and-covid-19-worldwide-survey-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/namma.org\/seafarers-ministry-and-covid-19-worldwide-survey-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Seafarers&#8217; Ministry and COVID-19 Worldwide Survey Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>by Kevin Walker, NAMMA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July and early August of this year, the International Christian Maritime Association (ICMA) surveyed its members about how COVID-19 had affected seafarers\u2019 welfare in their areas, what kinds of services they were offering them, what approach they were taking to protecting seafarers from COVID-19, and how COVID-19 and emergency funding had affected their finances. We received 95 responses. 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Founded in 1969, ICMA currently represents 27 members who provide seafarers&#8217; welfare in more than 450 ports in over 100 countries. ICMA is registered as a Charity in England and Wales (charity number 1176633). For more information, contact ICMA General Secretary, Dr. Jason Zuidema,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:gensec@icma.as\" target=\"_blank\">gensec@icma.as<\/a>&nbsp;or visit ICMA at&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/icma.as\/\" target=\"_blank\">icma.as<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kevin Walker, NAMMA In July and early August of this year, the International Christian Maritime Association (ICMA) surveyed its members about how COVID-19 had affected seafarers\u2019 welfare in their areas, what kinds of services they were offering them, what approach they were taking to protecting seafarers from COVID-19, and how COVID-19 and emergency funding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[341,182,223,224,342,124,343,32,344],"class_list":["post-2999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-world","tag-africa","tag-asia","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-europe","tag-ministry","tag-north-america","tag-seafarers","tag-south-america"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Seafarers&#039; Ministry and COVID-19 Worldwide Survey Report - NAMMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Discover the impact of COVID-19 on seafarers&#039; welfare worldwide through ICMA&#039;s comprehensive survey report. 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