Stranded and shattered seafarers threaten global supply lines

The Delta variant devastating parts of Asia - home to many of the world's 1.7 million commercial seafarers - has prompted many nations to cut off land access to visiting crews

“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.
 

“People don’t know how their supermarkets are stocked up.” Singh and most of his 20-strong crew have criss-crossed the globe on an exhausting odyssey: From India to the US to China, where they were stuck off the congested