SEAFARERS COMMITTEE (SC)

Angga Luthfi Eldrianto

DPP INSA I Maritime HC Education Division

14 Jun 2024
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Asian Shipowners
Association (ASA) 33rd
Annual General Meeting
(AGM), Hongkong May
2024

Seafarers Committee
(SC)
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• Minutes of the 29th Interim
Meeting of the ASA
Seafarers Committee,
Qingdao, China, 10th April
2024 (hybrid)

• Minutes of the 33rd ASA

Annual General Meeting of
the Seafarers Committee,
Hongkong, 28th May 2024
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Minutes of the 29th Interim Meeting of the ASA Seafarers Committee.

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1. Local Seafarer Development
1) Reports of members on current situation of local seafarers, local efforts on recruitment, retention and training
2) Experiences gained and lessons learnt in recruiting, retaining and training local seafarers

2. Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) and its implementation in the shipping sector

3. Decarbonization and training of seafarers

4. Maritime autonomous surface ship (MASS) and seafarers

5. Any Other Business

1) ILO Maritime Labour Convention
2) Piracy and Armed Robbery
3) Seafarers’ identity document
4) Seafarers’ mental health
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Mental health problems among seafarers

The Committee has received many reports on seafarers’

mental health problem. It has been widely recognized that
the mental health problem directly impacts the behavior of
seafarers and represents an immense risk for the wellbeing of
individual seafarers and for the safety of navigation.

Therefore, some Asian shipping companies have adopted

good practice to help their seafarers avoid or reduce the
negative effect of the mental problem. However, seafarers’
mental health problem is often regarded as a lesser pressing
problem by some shipping companies.

Non STCW training is now being developed in Indonesia.

Annex 12 draft MSC resolution for Contribute to the
prevention of and response to violence bullying and
Harassment including sexual harassment, bullying and
sexual assault and sexual harassment (effective Jan 1st ,2026).
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Seafarers’ identity documents and ILO Convention 185

The Committee is concerned about reports received from some ASA

member shipping companies regarding foreign seafarers facing
significant fines imposed by Brazilian immigration authorities for not
having biometric SIDs issued under ILO Seafarers' Identity Documents
Convention (No. 185).

A large number of seafarers from Asia still carry paper-based identity

documents issued under ILO Convention No. 108. Of the 38 countries
that have ratified ILO Convention No. 185, 37 countries continue to
pragmatically accept paper-based alternatives for the time being.
Brazil’s policy to refuse paper-based identity documents results in
unwarranted fines for seafarers and shipping companies.
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Maritime autonomous surface ship (MASS) and
seafarers

The use of MASS and the shore-based remote

operation center requires new training programs
for upskilling and reskilling seafarers.

An IMO working group has considered how best to

address training provisions for those personnel
involved in the operation of MASS, which
would include crew on board a MASS and shore-
based remote operators, and acknowledged
the need to develop high-level training provisions
for the MASS Code whereby the detailed
competency and knowledge, understanding and
proficiency (KUPs) provisions may be developed by
the HTW Sub-Committee at a later stage when the
Code has been finalized.
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Seafarers’ safety in southern Red Sea

The Committee is concerned about the safety of seafarers on ships

passing through southern Red Sea, where M/V True Confidence
was fired upon in March 2024 by missiles from Houthi forces,
resulting in the loss of lives of two Filipino seafarers, serious injury
to several other seafarers onboard and substantial damages to the
ship. In these circumstances, seafarers on board ships that have to
transit the area are faced with extreme pressure both physically
and mentally.

The Red Sea is a crucial waterway linking Europe and Asia. Many
ships passing through the affected area are crewed with seafarers
from Asia. The Committee condemns the attacks on civilian
merchant ships and the seafarers on board and urges the
international community to find a solution to this unprecedented
threat to seafarers.
Thank you!