This Christmas season if you’re at the beach looking out at the long line of merchant ships, waiting for their turn to enter Gladstone Harbour, spare a thought for the thirty or so seafarers working on board each one.
These men come from all corners of the globe – predominantly the Philippines – with Chinese sailors in increasing numbers, also Greek, Ukrainian and Russian – and they can spend up to twelve months at a time at sea, with very little contact with their families.
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