On Wednesday 8 April, the European Commission published recommendations on the repatriation and travel arrangements for seafarers and passengers stranded in non-Member States or on the high seas.
These new guidelines should, among other things, enable Member States to coordinate their efforts to ensure crew changes. This is a necessary manoeuvre for the smooth operation of maritime transport (75% of EU world trade), but which the measures taken to stem the COVID-19 pandemic have made...