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The CLIA supports the initiative of the ISF in order to facilitate the release of the visas to the marine ones that must disembark
the next month is in program the reunion of the Facilitation Committee of the IMO in sight of the review of convention FAL
March 5, 2013
International the crocieristica association Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) has announced own support to the initiative of the International Shipping Federation (ISF) in order to allow a faster release of the visas with the marine ones that must disembark.
The proposal turned from the ISF to the Facilitation Committee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in sight of the review of convention FAL on the facilitation of international the marine traffic that will be carried out the next month from the committee consists in the adoption of a pragmatic approach. Evidencing that the principle consolidated sanctioned in several international conventions, between which the 185 and the 108 of the International Labour Organization and the same FAL of the IMO, it establishes that, because of the particular nature of their relationship of job, the seafarers would not have to be in possession of a visa for being able to disembark to earth, the ISF has remembered that after the September 11 the 2001 emphasized attention to the topics of safety and immigration has caused the which questioned increasing of the possibility of the marine ones to exercise such right. They have been marked cases - it has specified the ISF - in which to the marine ones is not granted to leave their ships without a visa in the Schengen area of the European Union in spite of the efforts produced from the EU commission in order to resolve this problem. Difficulty - it has found the ISF - sussistono also in Brazil, to Singapore, in South Africa and other nations. "In spite of the explicit principle established in various conventions - it has emphasized Natalie Shaw, director of the area Employment Affairs of datoriale association ISF - now many States of marine landing place demand to a large number of obtaining the visas before being able to come down to earth. That cause serious difficulty to the seafarers, especially to those which they operate in traffics tramp that they cannot have the opportunity to demand a visa in advance".
The International Shipping Federation has manifested worry about a proposed detail of review of convention FAL (Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic): numerous governments - he has explained the federation - have supported the proposals to insert the numbers of the visas in the within of the information that the States of landing place can demand to the ships. "If the governments have supported that these information will be only used in order to facilitate the transmission of the information on the visas demanded for those marine ones that could want to travel beyond the geographic limits of the dismissal to earth - has observed the federation - the ISF considers that the adoption of such a amendment could serve to legitimize the obligation of the visas for the disembarkation to earth by the signers of the FAL, compromising ulteriorly the fundamental principle that the visas would not have to be demanded".
The ISF therefore has proposed to the IMO that the governments would have convene on the fact that, if the State of landing place insists in the demand for the visas for the disembarkation to earth, these States would have to make so that the marine ones are able to little demand the visa at the moment of the arrival in port or time before. "We do not want to be ruined with our hands - it has specified Nicole Shaw - even if this involves a compromise in a certain way for our part. If this amendment had to be received - it has emphasized - this could give a meaningful contribution in order to facilitate the access to the disembarkation permissions, that they continue to being a serious problem for many marine ones and many companies of navigation and that is a topic on which little progresses have been seen during the last few years. Our intention - it has synthetized Nicole Shaw - is to exceed the impasse".
This approach to the problem is shared by the CLIA. "The members of the crews - it has evidenced Christine Duffy, president and managing director of the crocieristica association - are the vital lymph of our field. We support with decision the initiatives in course in center IMO in order to allow they to benefit all over the world from theirs deserved disembarkation to earth in the hundreds of ports that our associates are visited by the ships of the companies".
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