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The Filipino crew clearly had something big to celebrate as they ordered pizza and red wine to be delivered to Welcome, a club for seafarers in the German port city of Bremerhaven. Usually, crews head to the club to buy chocolate and phone cards or go online but when volunteer Antje Zeller asked them what the occasion was, she learned it was their first time ashore in months. “The longest stretch they had spent on board was eight months,” Zeller says. That is something the volunteer has heard time and again since the pandemic broke out. “Some shipping companies don’t let seafarers off the ship…