{"id":7830,"date":"2021-12-06T16:11:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T15:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/?p=7830"},"modified":"2021-12-06T16:11:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T15:11:05","slug":"major-transport-organisations-warn-governments-knee-jerk-reaction-to-omicron-variant-puts-supply-chain-at-greater-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/major-transport-organisations-warn-governments-knee-jerk-reaction-to-omicron-variant-puts-supply-chain-at-greater-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Major transport organisations warn governments\u2019 knee-jerk reaction to Omicron variant puts supply chain at greater risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>World leaders\u2019 knee-jerk reactions to the Omicron variant are putting transport workers and the global supply chain at greater risk of collapse, warn international transport organisations and unions representing road, air and sea transport.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-03-at-12.23.22.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7831 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-03-at-12.23.22-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-03-at-12.23.22-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-03-at-12.23.22-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-03-at-12.23.22-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-03-at-12.23.22-1536x863.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-03-at-12.23.22.jpeg 1690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cross-border transport workers including seafarers, air crew and drivers must be able to continue to do their jobs, and cross borders without overly restrictive travel rules, to keep already ailing supply chains moving.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">IATA, the International Air Transport Association, ICS, the International Chamber of Shipping, IRU, the International Road Transport Union, and ITF, the International Transport Workers\u2019 Federation, have jointly called for governments to not reimpose border restrictions that further limit the freedom of movement of international transport workers and learn from the lessons of the last two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One week since the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the new Omicron strain of COVID-19 as a \u201cvariant of concern\u201d, at least 56 countries have reimposed varying degrees of travel restrictions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The transport bodies, which represent more than $20 trillion of world trade annually and 65 million global transport workers across the supply chain, call for an end to the rushed and fragmented approach to travel rules by governments. Now is the time for heads of state to listen to industry leaders and workers, by taking decisive and coordinated action together to ease strain on the supply chain, and support an exhausted\u00a0 global transport workforce during the busy holiday season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today the transport bodies also expressed frustration that governments were reneging on clear steps issued to world leaders in September to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Guarantee the free and safe movement of transport workers<\/li>\n<li>Prioritise transport workers to receive WHO-recognised vaccines.<\/li>\n<li>To adopt lasting travel and health protocols developed by industry for seafarers, drivers and air crew, as endorsed by WHO, ILO, IMO and ICAO<\/li>\n<li>To create globally harmonised, digital, mutually-recognised vaccination certificates and processes for demonstrating health credentials (including vaccination status and COVID-19 test results), which are paramount to ensure transport workers can cross international borders.<\/li>\n<li>Increase global vaccine supply by all means at our disposal in order to expedite the recovery of our industries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A crisis meeting with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) to discuss the recommendations, and the impact that travel bans and other restrictions in response to the Omicron variant will have on transport workers and the global supply chain is scheduled for Monday 6th\u00a0December.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Guy Platten, Secretary General, International Chamber of Shipping said<\/strong>: \u201cThis feels like groundhog day for our transport sectors. There is a real and legitimate fear that unless coordinated action is taken by world leaders we will see a return to the peak of the crew change crisis in 2020 where more than 400,000 seafarers were impacted by unnecessarily harsh travel restrictions. Our transport workers have worked tirelessly for the past two years throughout the pandemic to keep the global supply chain moving, and they are at breaking point. December is traditionally a busy time for seafarers returning home to their families and governments owe them the chance to spend that time with their loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Willie Walsh, Director General, IATA said: \u201c<\/strong>After nearly two years of dealing with COVID-19, we should have progressed beyond these knee-jerk, uncoordinated, Pavlovian-like responses. Public health officials tell us that we should expect variants to emerge. And by the time they are detected, experience shows that they are already present around the globe. Border restrictions that block air crew from doing their jobs will do nothing to prevent this while inflicting serious harm to still-recovering global supply chains and local economies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Stephen Cotton, General Secretary, ITF, said: <\/strong>\u201cThe same governments that have blocked global vaccine access are now the first to lock down their borders to keep the Omicron variant out. Instead of pursuing a global solution to this pandemic, their decisions further risk supply chain collapse. It\u2019s not only morally reprehensible, it\u2019s economic self-destruction. We need universal access to vaccines now. It\u2019s imperative for all of us to tell governments to stop bowing down to big pharma and pave the way so that every country can produce the vaccines needed to end this pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Umberto de Pretto, Secretary General, IRU, said, <\/strong>\u201cOnce again, COVID history is repeating itself with governments unilaterally changing hundreds of rules affecting cross border transport workers within a matter of hours. Truck drivers are again caught in the middle and paying a heavy price in simply doing their job to keep global supply chains functioning. They, and all of us who rely on their service, deserve much better.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source : \u00a0International Transport Workers\u2019 Federation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World leaders\u2019 knee-jerk reactions to the Omicron variant are 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