Stranded and Shattered Seafarers Threaten Global Supply Lines

Stranded and Shattered Seafarers Threaten Global Supply Lines
Container ships and oil tankers wait in the ocean outside the Port of Long Beach-Port of Los Angeles complex in Los Angeles on April 7, 2021. Lucy Nicholson/File/Reuters
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LONDON/SINGAPORE—“I’ve seen grown men cry,” says Captain Tejinder Singh, who hasn’t set foot on dry land in more than seven months and isn’t sure when he'll go home.

“We are forgotten and taken for granted,” he says of the plight facing tens of thousands of seafarers like him, stranded at sea as the Delta variant of the coronavirus wreaks havoc on shore.