Seafarers from Covid-hit India are struggling to get on ships—and off them ...Middle East

Last August, when the first wave of India’s Covid-19 pandemic was ebbing, Rajasironmani went back to sea. Rajasironmani, who uses only one name, lives with his family near the south Indian town of Tuticorin. He works as an engineer on cargo ships, and his life is punctuated by crewing contracts; every trip onboard is a new assignment, requiring a new contract. The one he signed in August was for five months on a ship that took him to ports in the US, Australia, Canada, and China, among other places.But when he was due to fly home from Singapore this past January—just in time to attend a wedding in the family—he found he couldn’t leave the ship. “The man who was supposed to relieve me—another

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