RINA has conferred to Sirius Ship Management first certificate "MLC 2006 - which released Crew Manning Agent" in Italy



The naval classification and accounting firm RINA has conferred to genoese Sirius Ship Management Srl first certificate "MLC 2006 - which released Crew Manning Agent" in Italy. The MLC2006 (Maritime Labour Convention) defines the norms tied to international the marine job making reference to convention SOLAS (safety of the ships), to the MARPOL (prevention of the marine pollution) and to the STCW (formation and certification of the marine ones), to the aim to guarantee the protection of the rights of the boarded staff.

RINA has remembered that on February 23, 2006 the International Labor Organization ILO has approved of the international convention on the marine job (Maritime Labour Convention - MLC 2006), updating beyond 65 conventions and relative recommendations ILO to the marine ones adopted in last the 80 years, and that such norm will take effect in August of this year and will not only presee the involvement of the Countries signers, but also of the ships that, also fly flag of a State that has not still ratified the Convention, scale a port of a State signer.

The contained directives in the MLC2006 are unavoidable and Italy, not being still signer, must be adapted in order to guarantee the full business activity of own fleet. The adaptation process involves first hand is the shipowners, in quality of employers of the navigating staff, is "manning agents" as Sirius Ship Management.

"We have strongly intentional acknowledgment MLC 2006 - the managing director of Sirius has explained, Filippo Guadagna - and for our category for us to which in Italy that is strangely not given to that just relief would be up to them and that instead it comes to them internationally recognized. The figure of Manning Agent, in fact, carries out the selection activity and recruitment of the navigating staff in name and on behalf of the shipowner and, more and more, represents a determining truth to protection of the shipowner and the marine worker. Saying goes, in any case - it has found Earns - that our Country can be considered the premonitory one of the MLC2006, pack-saddles to think to the figure of the Marine Raccomandatario very identified from law 135 of 1977. It is true therefore that this activity, even if little note in Italy, finds just here and until from 1977, exactly, a precise normative reference, already in the direction of Convention MLC2006".

"This certification - it has concluded Earns - is for us source of great satisfaction because it demonstrates with the facts our constant tension to the improvement, imprinted always at the opening to the world. This opening affords us to look always ahead, also in a crisis moment as what we are living, and to guarantee to our customers (shipping and personal sailor) a quality and a concreteness that, from always, mark to us".

"Convention MLC2006 - it has emphasized Fortunato Sulfaro, general manager for Italy of group RINA - values and evidences the indispensable role of the human resources for the existence, the development and the good operation of a shipowning company. For this, the motivations that push the companies to demand such certification directly are connected to the necessity to guarantee in transparent way the respect of the rights of the marine workers. Group RINA, in forecast of the effectiveness of norm MLC 2006, supplies assistance characterized to all the subjects involved in the phase of recruitment and next navigating personnel management, in order to make so that own activities are answering to the international norms, demonstrating to have put into practice the regulations in the within of own responsibilities".