Crew change. Australian AMSA blocks two ships for breach of the Maritime Work Convention

In fact, the Australian Maritime Safery Authority (AMSA) has made known to have placed two ships in detention in recent days unison Jasper and Ben Rinnes,which they fly the flag of Hong Kong and the Islands respectively Marshall, for violation of the Maritime Work Convention International Labour Organization. Convention 186 2006 stipulates, among other things, that each Member State guarantees, ensuring that there are adequate provisions in your legislation or collective bargaining, which seafarers boarded on ships flying its flag have the right to repatriated at the end of the maximum duration of the periods boarding periods, which must be less than 12 months.

AMSA announced that on 31 July 11 members of the Unison Jasper'screw, who arrived in Newcastle, are have been landed and transferred to Sydney for the quarantine period waiting to be repatriated to their country of origin, while ship was placed at the mooring waiting for the seafarers who will have to replace the landed ones. The Australian Maritime Safery Authority has specified that Unison Jasper will not be allowed to leave Newcastle until the minimum conditions for the work of seafarers on board the ship will not be Met.

In addition, AMSA has announced that Ben Rinnes was detained on August 7 in Geelong how much two of the seafarers on board had served more 14 months in the absence of an approved or approved return and leave plan agreed with the flag state. In addition, three seafarers are been disembarked from the ship and are currently waiting to be Returnees.

The AMSA recalled that it had published a warning about the maximum period of on-board service for during the period of the pandemic, communication in which specifies AMSA's approach to the continuous period maximum service that a seafarer can provide on board in the July 1, 2020 to October 1, 2020, after the end of AMSA will return to apply the usual rules on maximum service period for seafarers included in your Regulation 17/2016.

Temporary rules for the period July-October 2020 where there are seafarers with valid enlistment contracts who have served on board a ship for less than 11 months without taking leave, no action is taken. In in the event that, on the other hand, AMSA inspectors find that at least a regular-contracted seafarer has served continuously aboard a ship for more than 11 months and less than 13 months without taking leave, the ship's commander will be required to provide a plan for the repatriation of the seafarer approved by the flag state and the seafarer will have to be repatriated before he has carried out an ongoing period 14 months' maximum work. If the inspectors ascertain that a maritime with a valid contract has served uninterruptedly aboard a ship for more than 13 months, ship will be prohibited from leaving the port until A plan for the repatriation of the company will not be provided to AMSA. approved by the flag state, with repatriation that will have to be before the worker has made a maximum period of time 14 months on board. Finally, if the inspectors are to ascertain that a maritime does not have a valid contract, the commander will be required to organise the repatriation of the seafarer and this may require you to accommodate the seafarer on land until it will not be possible to arrange the repatriation. If the start maritime safety table means that the safety table is not being respected. determining the composition of the crew, the ship will be imposed not to leave the port.

Given the inertia with which, to date, the problem of changing the crews of the ships there is to be wondering if the first step taken by the Australian Maritime Safery Authority to free seafarers who, as has been said by more parties, have long been hostage to their ships, others will follow.