{
  "id": 9200990,
  "title": "Seafarer welfare is improving amongst leading companies, but five years of evidence shows this progress is far from the norm",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/seafarer-welfare-is-improving-amongst-leading-companies-but-five",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-22T21:00:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hellenic Shipping News",
    "slug": "hellenic-shipping-news",
    "url": "https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/seafarer-welfare-is-improving-amongst-leading-companies-but-five-years-of-evidence-shows-this-progress-is-far-from-the-norm/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Five years after the launch of the Delivering on Seafarers’ Rights Code of Conduct, a growing number of shipping companies are demonstrating real change in seafarer welfare. However, across the industry as a whole, welfare improvements are not always reaching many seafarers, according to a new progress report published today by the Sustainable Shipping Initiative ...",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}