By Ann Koh (Bloomberg) Hundreds of countless seafarers danger being stuck at sea past the expiration of their agreements due to India’s rising coronavirus episode, according to among the globe’s biggest independent unrefined ship proprietors.

The scenario recommends that a maritime labor situation stimulated by the pandemic is proceeding right into 2021, as an expanding variety of significant ports worldwide limit entrance to Indian team participants, which comprise regarding 15% of the globe’s overall.

“Those people are restricted from being rotated, and have to stay on board for a much longer time period than their contract is for,” stated Hugo de Stoop, ceo of Euronav BV, in a Bloomberg Television meetingThursday “We fear that we’re going to see the scenario that we saw in the first wave and some part of the second wave” of the pandemic.

Last August, regarding 250,000 seafarers of all citizenships that were past due for team modifications had their agreements prolonged, according to the International Chamber ofShipping As of March this year, regarding 200,000 seafarers were past the expiration of their agreements as well as incapable to be repatriated, according to the International Maritime Organization.