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Maersk Calls for Action as Stranded Seafarers Rise to 400,000

  • United Nations, companies and governments meet on crisis
  • Unilever, P&G among brands warning of supply disruption
A Maersk Eindhoven container ship moored in Yokohama, Japan.

A Maersk Eindhoven container ship moored in Yokohama, Japan.

Photographer: Toru Hanai/Bloomberg
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The world’s largest container shipping companies and the United Nations Secretary-General are appealing to governments to resolve a labor crisis that has stranded 400,000 workers on boats, according to a new estimate from the International Chamber of Shipping.