Vatican invites the authorities to supervise on the exploitation of the marine job



In occasion of the day dedicated to Sunday of the Sea, celebrated yesterday, Cardinal Peter K.A. Turkson, prefect of the papal Ministry for integral the human Development, has sent to the chaplains, to the volunteers, the friends and the supporters of the Apostolate of the Sea a message of wish and gratefulness for the carried out job. In the message the importance of the protection of the rights of how many they work in sea, expressed in the Convention of the Marine Job of 2006 is emphasized.

Turkson has invited to express "gratefulness to this force composed job gives beyond million and means marine (the majority of which it comes from the Developing countries). Thanks to the their hard job and to their sacrifices - Cardinal has remembered - our life is more comfortable as they transport, from a Country to other through the oceans, about 90% of every type of goods".

Cardinal has evidenced that "although their contribution is essential for the total world-wide economy, many are the difficulties and the challenges that these people must face and that they influence their life and their dignity". In particular, Turkson have found that "in spite of the adoption and effectiveness in August 2013 of the MLC 2006 that establishes international requirement minimums of the working human rights and of the marine ones, exist still too many cases of crews tricked on the salary, taken advantage of and victims of abuses in their place of work, unjustly criminalized for marine and abandoned incidents in foreign ports. While it is ours the necessary assistance and the support to the crews that they endure deprivations and they live difficulty - it has added Turkson - we invite the marine authorities lend greater attention and to being must lend all more supervising in order to prevent the abuses and to repair the injustices".

Cardinal has stopped itself also on the threat of piracy on the marine routes and has observed that. even if respect to some years is diminished ago, "the danger of attacks armed and of diversions it is still much elevating in some geographic areas. We invite therefore the marine community - he has continued Turkson - not to wind down the guard and to put in existence all the measures necessary in order to guarantee safety and the protection, not only of the cargo, but above all of the crews".