6,200 mariners are waiting for the permission to leave

About 8,000 people submitted applications for confirmation of copies of educational and qualification documents, about 1,800 have already received the necessary documents.

The lack of approved procedures and methods of issuing documents for seafarers slows down the process of crossing the state border and the departure of seafarers to work on ships as part of ship crews. This was stated by the head of the Black Sea Interregional Administration of the Shipping Administration Oleksandr Zaborskyi.

Currently, the Odesa Regional Military Administration is preparing an appeal to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine regarding the urgent need t