I
was not very happy to hear the news of "crew change will be not allowed
for the time being" ., especially that I had already submitted my early
vacation request. In fact I'm furious over my current situation because I
dislike the ships working environment., I'm itching and hurrying to get out of
this ship and change principals as soon as I can but with this current
situation where most Asian countries are currently implementing a lockdown on
their borders (due to the COVID pandemic) and might It take some time before it
settles. For now crew change on this company is temporarily halted until
further notice.
Speaking
of crew change suspension . It seems that the first batch of crew change on
this ship in south Africa is halted as well, and probably crew change will be
now somewhere in the U.S. - at least for those who have a U.S. Visa around, for
those who don’t - then they'd have to wait for the next available non U.S. territory for a crew change , a country
that has no lock down.
Hopefully
based on the Philippine Tv news ., The nationwide lockdown will be lifted
probably around April 14.
I'm
still hopeful that maybe I can get off on this ship by May
In
other news …
Here
life onboard is on the usual routine, and as always O.S. Dalida pesters me
around on his chatting of none important things but its more of an
inconvenience now rather than an annoyance. As much as possible I tried tgo
ride along with his worthless chat or if it gets to annoying , I try to ignore
it.
Not
much to write about anything ., the whole news is flooded with this corona
virus , no new memo about crew change
Speaking
of which there is rumors that even shore leave might be cancelled in the U.S.
as well . Captain here is paranoid that one of crew the might get infected
along the way , so probably he's thinking that the stuff were trying to buy in
the U.S. will be just for sorts
"private orders".
In
any case U.S. is not officially lockdown yet , so there's a possibility for a
crew change for non - filipino's .
