Δηλαδή, και να θέλεις να γράψεις την αλήθεια , δεν μπορείς, αφού από χέρι ξέρεις ότι είσαι παράνομος. Αλλά , γιατί οι αρχές περιμένουν να δουν και αν δουν τις φόρμες του κώδικα?
Σε πολλές περιπτώσεις γνωρίζουν τα δρομολόγια συγκεκριμένων πλοίων, άρα είναι εύκολο να δουν πόσες ώρες εργάζονται οι ναυτικοί και αν αυτό είναι μέσα στους χρόνους που αφορούν την ανάπαυση του πληρώματος. Όμως, πάντα πρέπει να υπάρχει ένα εξιλαστήριο θύμα.
Στο παρακάτω άρθρο, οι πλοιοκτήτες ζητούν ελαστικότητα στις ώρες ανάπαυσης. και η ITF αρνείται διότι θέτει σε κίνδυνο την ζωή των ναυτικών και την ασφάλεια του πλοίου.
Αυτό είναι σωστό, αλλά είναι υποκριτικό όταν γνωρίζουμε τι γίνεται στην πράξη
Unions against flexibility in crew rest rules
- Monday 28 June 2010
John Bainbridge Lloyds
ITF say exceptions allowed in revised STCW pose risk to seafarers and vessels’ safety
THE International Transport Workers Federation is disappointed that the International Maritime Organization diplomatic conference in Manila last week conceded to owners’ demands for flexibility in applying rules on rest hours.
The seafarer’s union organisation also expressed concern about a reduction of training requirements for watchkeeping engineers .The ITF supported the increase in minimum rest hours to 77 a week and 10 hours a day with a maximum 14 hours between rest periods. This brings the Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping into line with the International Labour Organisation Maritime Labour Convention.
However, the ITF wanted that limit to be strictly imposed. Instead, owners organisations persuaded delegates to agree exceptions on a daily and weekly basis to meet “short-term” operational requirements. Unions fear that these exceptions will allow owners to retain working practices that pose a risk of seafarers suffering fatigue affecting their own and vessels’ safety.
Owners organisations the International Shipping Federation and International Chamber of Shipping said at the conclusion of the conference that they were “pleased that governments have responded to employers’ arguments about the need for flexibility to ensure safe and efficient operations during short-term peak workloads”.
ITF seafarers’ section assistant secretary John Bainbridge told Lloyd’s List: “We are and will continue to be against flexibilities in hours of rest above those agreed. Frankly, any agreement for seafarers to work 98 hours per week in the Year of the Seafarer is not sending a message seafarers will be comforted by.”
Although some of the changes in the revised convention are relatively uncontroversial, the union organisation also expressed its dissatisfaction that in making the revisions other issues, such as enhancing skills, were not effectively improved, but relieved that the conference did not agree to a wholesale reduction of training requirements in an effort to diffuse the current shortage of officers.
“I would say we are disappointed it did not successfully address fatigue or enhance skill standards but, given the shortage of qualified seafarers, we probably, with one exception, stopped down-skilling and fast-tracking - that is, respectively, lowering the standards of skill and education for seagoing certification, and reducing training and education requirements to get qualified watchkeepers quickly. We are totally opposed to both things.”
The one exception he referred to involves a cut in requirements for engineer officers. Mr Bainbridge commented to Lloyd’s List: “By procedural sleight of hand they have reduced the minimum training requirements for watchkeeping engineers from 30 months to 12 months on the basis that the issue is competency not service time. This is a highly significant move at a time when there is a shortage of engineers.”
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