Loss Prevention Advice
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Since March 2020, the world has experienced an unprecedented tragedy during which COVID-19 has changed the lives of people worldwide in unimaginable ways. In order to prevent the entry and spread of COVID-19 in their territories, governments declared states of emergency, closed borders, confined citizens to their homes and shut down most economic and social activities, with the exception of essential ones required to supply food, medicines, energy, water and other basic goods and services. This caused devastating social and economic damage worldwide, with the most vulnerable people and economies being hit hardest. Years of hard-won development progress have been reversed.
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A Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN) notice has advised that Nigeria is stepping up its efforts against anti-corruption at ports and terminals.
Namely, MACN informed of a pre-arrival process that has been put in place for vessels calling at Nigerian ports and terminals to allow for port call progress to be monitored by a Port Standing Task Team (PSTT), along with an MACN Local Help Desk team in Nigeria.
This is in response to a new policy from the Nigerian government to ban ships and companies calling at Nigerian ports and terminals from offering gifts and other forms of facilitation payments to officials from the Port Health, Immigration, Customs, and other agencies involved in the boarding and inspection of vessels.
Any form of corrupt demand made towards a vessel’s Captain, the shipping company, or their respective appointed stakeholder(s) should be immediately reported to the Port Standing Task Team (PSTT) and MACN Local Help Desk who will provide timely advice on next steps.
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Risk Alert to highlight some of the dangers of working in and around the cargo holds during “routine” maintenance and cleaning operations.
Most common causes
As Taslim Imad, Loss Prevention, Steamship Mutual, said, ship’s crew comprise individuals who will have many differences based on for example their ethnic origin, language, physical abilities, gender, motivational level, their intelligence, attitude and perception towards safety and the risks that they face, that’s why the Human Element is “estimated to be a contributing factor in 75% to 96% of marine incidents.”
In addition, a crewmember may be familiar with a task, leading to a false sense of security, a perceived lessening of risk and a feeling of being in their comfort zone.
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IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim shone a spotlight on the rights of seafarers and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on recruitment and retention when speaking at the La Rochelle Maritime Symposium on ‘Employment and skills challenges in the European maritime transport and services sector’, held on 09 February, 2022.
“We must not relent in our efforts to facilitate international travel for crew change purposes, including getting vaccinations and boosters as well as access to medical facilities when needed. If we do not assure the rights and well-being of seafarers, we will not be able to retain the existing seafarers in the profession and certainly not be in a position to attract any new additions to the industry,” he told listeners.
His speech also touched upon the annual International Day for Women in Maritime, as well as this year’s IMO World Maritime Theme of “New technologies for greener shipping”.
Full advisory at the following link.
https://www.imo.org/en/MediaCentre/SecretaryGeneral/Pages/La-Rochelle-Maritime.aspx