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Confitarma adheres to the ICS initiative to ensure that governments address the issue of ship crew changes
Mattioli: Confitarma together with ICS, ECSA has been calling for swift and decisive humanitarian action for months now
July 3, 2020
The ICS general secretary, Guy Platten, recalled that currently globally there are 400,000 seafarers stranded in sea or land, which 200 thousand for months have been on board well beyond their contractual period and another 200,000 are waiting to boarding in order to work. The ICS has specified that if you do not allow crew changes to replace seafarers on board of the ships, many of them may no longer be able to navigate.
"It is therefore necessary," noted the President by Confitarma, Mario Mattioli - think, in addition to the priority absolutely to prevent the spread of this terrible virus, even other priorities: safeguarding human life at sea and that of the safety of navigation and our Ships. Confitarma together with ICS, ECSA has been asking for months now rapid and decisive humanitarian action by governments across the world the world to provide seafarers with safe transit corridors for get them on board to work and to get them home a once the normal boarding period has been over.'
Platten recalled that global shipping has already solution for this difficult solution: a road map for 12-step crew change according to approved protocol By the International Maritime Organization. "It is -- he explained the Secretary-General of the ICS - a solution that did not need money or complicated negotiations. Governments must now implement these protocols. If the bureaucracy continues to put In between, what is already a humanitarian crisis in sea, will quickly become an economic crisis, with serious consequences for an already too tense global economy. The time of political leadership is now."
"If ships from all over the world will sound their sirens At 12:00 local time on 8 July, Platten continued, the governments won't say they haven't heard this strong appeal to solve the problem of crew changes. Seafarers have done what they could, stretching their shifts on board and continuing to work to secure all supplies. Industry too owner-made his duty with the predisposition of the 12-step protocol. We are more than four months behind schedule 400,000 seafarers need crew changes. Is an untenable situation. We can no longer give for discounted these heroes of global trade."
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The ICS general secretary, Guy Platten, recalled that currently globally there are 400,000 seafarers stranded in sea or land, which 200 thousand for months have been on board well beyond their contractual period and another 200,000 are waiting to boarding in order to work. The ICS has specified that if you do not allow crew changes to replace seafarers on board of the ships, many of them may no longer be able to navigate.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
