FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin Staying connected with the wider world supports seafarers’ mental health, well-being, and job satisfaction, the All Aboard Alliance highlighted in its fifth guideline for sustainable crewing. The maintenance of real-world connections is also essential to seafarers, but survey results show that many crew members are highly dissatisfied with the lack of shore leave they receive. In this context, maritime health and welfare experts are calling on the shipping industry to recognize free, reliable internet access as a basic human right for seafarers. RelatedNews Marine lubricants: A hidden seaworthiness risk South Korea launches autonomous ship AI data platform var jnews_module_21366431_1_6a01de9867ef3 = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21366431","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"4343,3469,263,2193,3060,1504,2500,458,3556,1745,3314","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_position":1,"ads_random":"","ads_image":"","ads_image_table