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ILO, IMO, UNCTAD and WHO urge governments to work together to resolve the ship's crew change crisis
The situation has worsened to coincide with the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus
February 28, 2022
The International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Health Organization (WHO) today renewed the exhortation to the governments to continue to cooperate in order to resolve the crisis of the exchange of ship crews caused by measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.
The four international organizations specified that, according to the Neptune Declaration Crew Change Indicator, the data-based indicator provided by ten primary ship managers that together employs around 90mila seamen, the percentage of seamen forced to remain on board their ships after their enlistment contract expired, which according to the Maritime Labour Convention of 2006 may have a maximum duration of 11 months, decreased from 9% in July to 3.7% per cent to December 2021, but the percentage rose to 4.2% percent in mid-January 2022 due to the measures taken by the governments to limit the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
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