The Liberia Registry says it has trained nearly 100 of the global network of International Safety Management Code (ISM) auditors to conduct Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) inspections and verifications on Liberian flag ships.
Only 12 states have ratified the convention, so it is unlikely to come into force before late 2012. Major European countries such as the UK have still to incorporate the MLC into their national legislation and similar training programmes to Liberia’s have yet to be put in place.
The registry held its first course in Piraeus, Greece, late last year and this has since been followed by others in shipping centres around the world. It had also been conducting combined ISM/International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code auditor courses.
Recently at Piraeus the registry ran a combined ISM/ISPS course along with its new MLC Inspector course. Fourteen nautical inspectors were certified as auditor after passing the final examination.
The Liberian administration explained that the training programme is a response to the many requests from Liberian-flagged vessel voluntary compliance with MLC ahead of its entry into force. The first such inspection, of the 7,000teus container ship UASC Yaribu, owned by D Oltmann Reederer and Management, took place at Hamburg in March.
For the convention to come into force, signatures are required from 30 member states of the International Labour Organization, representing 33% of the world´s gross tonnage.
The tonnage limit was passed when Panama ratified the convention in February 2009, but only more states have joined those leading fleets. This is despite a five-years plan initiate by the ILO in September 2006, with a strategy to achieve entry into force by 2011.
Recopilado
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Guillermo Parra Avello
Junio 2011
Only 12 states have ratified the convention, so it is unlikely to come into force before late 2012. Major European countries such as the UK have still to incorporate the MLC into their national legislation and similar training programmes to Liberia’s have yet to be put in place.
The registry held its first course in Piraeus, Greece, late last year and this has since been followed by others in shipping centres around the world. It had also been conducting combined ISM/International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code auditor courses.
Recently at Piraeus the registry ran a combined ISM/ISPS course along with its new MLC Inspector course. Fourteen nautical inspectors were certified as auditor after passing the final examination.
The Liberian administration explained that the training programme is a response to the many requests from Liberian-flagged vessel voluntary compliance with MLC ahead of its entry into force. The first such inspection, of the 7,000teus container ship UASC Yaribu, owned by D Oltmann Reederer and Management, took place at Hamburg in March.
For the convention to come into force, signatures are required from 30 member states of the International Labour Organization, representing 33% of the world´s gross tonnage.
The tonnage limit was passed when Panama ratified the convention in February 2009, but only more states have joined those leading fleets. This is despite a five-years plan initiate by the ILO in September 2006, with a strategy to achieve entry into force by 2011.
Recopilado
Capt
Guillermo Parra Avello
Junio 2011
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