If you ask any seafarer about the worst part of signing on, they rarely say "the flight." They say: "The Wait." They land at Changi after a 14-hour flight. They clear immigration. They exit into the humid Singapore heat. And then... they wait. Sometimes it’s a 4-hour gap before the launch boat. Sometimes the vessel is delayed at the anchorage. For decades, the industry standard for this "gap" was a plastic chair at Marina South Pier or a curb outside the terminal. We looked a
