Events & Press releases

Mental Health Support Solutions CEO and founder Charles Watkins welcomes the recently published report by the Department for Transport which aims to bring greater understanding of the mental health challenges of seafarers and the impacts of suicide on crew and the difficulties they face in reporting a suicide. It comes in conjunction with the launch of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) new digital Wellbeing at Sea Tool. However Mr Watkins has a few reservations about how it might work.

The recently reported cases of abuse on commercial ships are shocking but sadly not that unusual according to Charles Watkins, CEO of Mental Health Support Solutions (MHSS). The cases which have been widely reported in the press have taken place on a number of container ships.

Columbia Shipmanagement, together with its owning company and its clients, have raised an unprecedented €1.4 million and assembled a team of 320 psychologists, mostly from Ukraine, to aid traumatised families of seafarers who have been impacted by the war in Ukraine.