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45 Member States of the International Maritime Organization have designated seafarers as essential workers
Lim: this is a key step in resolving the crisis in the change of ship crews
December 15, 2020
The IMO Member States that have designated the seafarers as essential workers, as well as Hong Kong which is associated member, are: Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, United Arab Emirates, Philippines, France, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Marshall, Kenya, Kiribati, Liberia, Moldova, Montenegro, Myanmar, Nigeria, Norway, New Zealand, Netherlands, Panama, United Kingdom, Republic of Korea, Romania, Singapore, Spain, United States, South Africa, Sweden, Thailand and Yemen.
It is right to denounce the absence from the list of Italy which, resolutions calling on governments to designate the seafarers as essential workers adopted by the IMO, the UN General Assembly and International Labour organization, has not yet included seafarers among the categories of workers to be granted derogations from the regulations that mobility due to the health crisis. An absence that can be explained by the weak stress addressed in this the shipowners and their shipowners' associations at the government and, in particular, to the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Paola De Micheli, and the poor, to say the most, attention of the latter with regard to this serious problem. Will this opportunity, perhaps, to renew from many quarters the request for the establishment of a specifically dedicated dicastery to the sea, solution -- this newspaper has written it several times - more useful to complicate than to simplify things at the shipping and useful instead to provide alibis to those who, for precise political mandate, should endeavour to resolve these issues and to whom, as in the assignment assigned by the category that represents (not that of seafarers, evidently), should press the first to put these problems to the fore.
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The IMO Member States that have designated the seafarers as essential workers, as well as Hong Kong which is associated member, are: Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, United Arab Emirates, Philippines, France, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Marshall, Kenya, Kiribati, Liberia, Moldova, Montenegro, Myanmar, Nigeria, Norway, New Zealand, Netherlands, Panama, United Kingdom, Republic of Korea, Romania, Singapore, Spain, United States, South Africa, Sweden, Thailand and Yemen.
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