This year’s Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC), running from 1 September until 30 November 2024, prioritises seafarers’ basic rights on board ships, and will be carried out on the topic of crew wages and Seafarer Employment Agreements (SEAs) under Maritime Labour Convention (MLC).
Each year, PSC regimes identify a specific focus area to be checked during regular inspections. For the current year, the Paris and Tokyo MoUs agreed to run a CIC on the topic of “Crew Wages” and “Seafarer Employment Agreements” under MLC. It is expected that the “Financial Security Requirements under the 2014 Amendments” to the MLC are also covered by this CIC.
It should be noted that the CIC is part of regular PSC inspections, and the attending PSC Officer may extend the inspection to other areas of the ship or crew-related matters, such as rest hour records or familiarisation.
The CIC will be covered by an additional questionnaire during routine PSC inspections. This questionnaire is usually published in early August. Once the final questionnaire is published, we will also announce it.
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