BIMCO's position on "fair treatment of seafarers" has been approved by the BIMCO Board of Directors.
Fair treatment of seafarers in the event of a maritime accident is addressed in guidelines developed by a Joint IMO/ILO Ad Hoc Expert Working Group in 2006. Mandatory provisions on fair treatment of seafarers are included in the 2010 IMO Casualty Investigation Code (CIC), the 2006 ILO Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) and the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
Unfair treatment of seafarers can take many forms and be for many reasons. Incidents may relate to eg pollution from ships or smuggling, even though very few of these incidents involve intentional or grossly negligent behaviour of seafarers. Other related incidents may involve the attitude of port state control officials towards ships’ crew and abandonment of seafarers.
Unfair treatment has an unacceptable impact on the seafarers involved. It also has a damaging effect to the image of the shipping industry and its ability to attract and retain qualified seafarers.
Veritas Petroleum Services (VPS) publish regular Bunker Alerts based entirely on fuel samples and have kindly permitted BIMCO’s Members to access this information.
The Bunker Alerts are not intended to be an evaluation of overall bunker quality in the port or area concerned, but usually highlight a specific parameter within the fuel which has raised a quality issue.
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