By
the time this ship arrived , every crew here was wearing his issued standard
"disease and prevention" kit as a prevention on this corona virus
thing. Personally I think this suit is somewhat overboard as the area in china
in which this ship berthed is relatively disease free and no infections. Still
despite being relatively safe., xenophobia here on this ship is way over the
top, such instance was fourth engineer being furious that a Chinese is having
his pack meal inside the crew mess. He looked on to this people with digust and
malice , saying that they're "polluting" the area with their viruses
and disease.
Even
some of my co-workers avoid , even talking to Chinese jetty men and let them do
all the work on the cargo hose connection in the loading arm. For myself I
don’t harbor any disgust or xenophobia against them, they're just simply
workers doing their job and nothing more.
Xenophobia
here is really extreme that sometimes I'm thinking that my co-workers are
already being a racist and that they're just justifying it because of this
corona virus thing .
After
the discharge operations., this ship proceeded to Singapore for its routine
bunkering and provisioning supplies. Due to the ship reaching this area within
less than 14 days of local quarantine regulations on this country., no crew
change was allowed and will have to wait on next port
On
the moment that bunkering and provisioning ops was finished , it came the news
that this ship will be heading off to Texas U.S.A. For loading cargo and then discharging it
back to south Korea. Apparently from what I heard the whole trip will take
about 90 days at least , (35 days going to the area , and possibly another 35
going back , and this doesn’t include the days involved in loading and
anchoring) which meant that this will be going to be a very long trip and
knowing that south Korea will be in some sort of lockdown quarantine , its
possible that no crew change will be allowed for the whole trip.
No
crew change means people here are stuck until they sort out this whole shit and
allow freedom of movement on ship workers.
