It is time we show the world that we matter

‘Day of the Seafarer’ is coming up soon. That day where we show seafarers our support and gratitude by shouting out loud that ‘Seafarers are Keyworkers'!
But this year, we thought we’d change the concept a little bit and instead call it ‘Week of the Seafarer’. Simply because we believe that seafarers deserve more than just a day to be acknowledged for their extraordinary and enormous effort and sacrifices during the corona pandemic. So, from Friday 19th of June and all the way to Thursday, June 25 on the real Day of the Seafarer, we are dedicating our platforms to pay tribute to seafarers who are experiencing extra-long voyages and are missing home and loved ones. And to all other seafarers who are simply awesome because they make the world move every day.

This is the voice of Second Officer on board NEXØ MAERSK, Nikolai R. Westrup:

"First of all I would like to applaud all my fellow Seafarers for the tremendous job they are doing.
During the most dire time in the lives of many of us, it’s time to look back and reflect about the life we live. For many years the seafarers have been the “forgotten or hidden” part of life for almost everybody, and now when the world is coming together, in the fight against the global pandemic, it is time for the seafarers to rise up to the occasion and show the world we matter, that we are keyworkers in the global community!

We keep the ships sailing even though many of us are far beyond the ends of our contracts, we keep the globalsupplychains intact. All this we do while far from family and loved ones, living with the uncertainty of not knowing when it was possible to be relieved and come home. We can’t work from home, and we for sure can’t stop working, and we do not intend to stop working either because we are seafarers and we take pride in what we do in our jobs! Keeping the world moving forward and enabling trade across the globe."