But US still likely to deny seafarers shore leave if they don't have visa
By Donald Urquhart
(SINGAPORE) The new biometric-based identity document for the world's 1.2 million seafarers could be in use in just over six months as global testing is set to begin and more states ratify its governing Convention, said an International Labour Organisation (ILO) official.
The new identity document is the product of the ILO's new Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention (No 185), which was hammered out last year after 15 months of intensive negotiations among governments, shipowners' associations and labour unions
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