Maritime Safety Administration issued maritime labor certification

Recently, CCS was commissioned to inspect the maritime labor conditions of Chinese international sailing vessels. The Maritime Administration of the Ministry of Transport and China Classification Society (CCS) have signed the “Agreement on the Verification of Maritime Labor Compliance for the Chinese International Sailing Vessels”. The Maritime Administration issued a maritime labor compliance certificate.

Li Enhong, Director of the Marine Department of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, introduced that the Maritime Affairs Bureau commissioned a certificate of conformity issued by CCS to help Chinese ships engaged in international navigation to deal with port states during the period between the entry into force of the Maritime Labour Convention of 2006 (MLC Convention) and the ratification of the Convention by China. Supervision to avoid being stranded. The MLC Convention will formally enter into force on August 20 of this year. The convention provides that the State Party may carry out port state inspections of foreign ships that have arrived in Hong Kong for the implementation of the MLC Convention.

It is reported that the entrustment agreement is applicable to international voyages of Chinese nationals engaged in commercial activities of 500 gross tonnage and above, and the Ministry of Maritime Affairs of the ministry will work together with CCS to ensure that relevant ships obtain a certificate of conformity before August 20.