In reaction to media queries we have actually offered the adhering to declaration from Guy Platten, Secretary General, ICS:
“Economies all over the world are participating in a duration of extensive adjustment. The spread of the coronavirus has actually caused several nations shutting their boundaries and also limiting port entrance. While consisting of the infection is important, we need to guarantee that international profession is permitted to proceed.
“The problem of staff adjustment that has actually developed because of the coronavirus must be of certain worry to the global neighborhood. Every day, seafarers throughout the globe are offering a front-line solution to the international economic climate. Limitations on staff adjustment (the substitute of among the ship’s staff participants with one more one) have the prospective to trigger severe interruption to the circulation of profession.
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“Not just do we have a task to guarantee that international profession proceeds, yet we additionally need to guarantee that the well-being of our seafarers is not jeopardised. Although all ICS participants are doing a wonderful task at sustaining their private participants at a nationwide degree, this pushing trouble calls for the interest of the whole global neighborhood.
“That is why, on Thursday 19th March, ICS will certainly be utilizing our assembling power to bring nationwide organizations from all over the world with each other for the very first of a continuous collection of conferences made to determine swift and also efficient remedies.
“The course ahead is not yet clear, and also no suggestion will certainly be off the table. We have actually been striving on the problem for time currently, having actually offered input to the EU whilst communicating with significant global bodies such as the THAT, IMO, ILO and also several others. We have actually currently laid out support which has actually been offered free of cost and also can be downloaded and install free of cost from the ICS site.
“This conference will certainly not be a ‘one-off’, yet the start of a collection of routine teleconference with our nationwide organizations in reaction to the substantial difficulty dealing with the globe, our seafarers and also the international delivery neighborhood. We intend to guarantee that all the problems the sector is dealing with can be dealt with with each other.
“Now is the time for cooperation and clear thinking. Though we do not have all the answers, we understand that we are stronger and more effective together than when we are apart. Shipping by its nature is a complicated yet seamless interaction of countries, cultures and corporations. Around 90% of all goods that people use around the world are transported by sea. It is therefore vital that shipping is able to continue as smoothly and safely as possible to ensure that the world is able to fight the COVID-19 virus.”
Reference: ics-shipping. org
