Döhle Yachts creates digestible MLC, 2006 guide
Döhle Yachts has created a downloadable document to help guide the uninitiated through the major impacts and changes entitled 'Maritime Labour Convention: How Will it Affect Superyachts?'…
Three words and a number have brought an ever-growing snowball of
discussion and concern to the superyacht world in last few years:
Maritime Labour Convention, 2006.
At a recent Professional Yachtsmen's Association (PYA) meeting during the Monaco Yacht Show, CEO of the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency Sir Alan Massey commented that the MLC, 2006 is “a big steam train that has left the station but is not yet down the tracks … its rules are sound for the protection of seafarers and employers, and the intention was good, but the logic was not there for large yachts”.
There has been discussion as to what it will really mean for yachting and, although the MLC, 2006 is predominantly bringing together around 70 pre-existing pieces of legislation on living and working conditions, there are changes that have yet to be clarified for their true impact on yachting.
Some of the biggest concerns have been about the space for cabins, and worries that these are unworkable for a functioning charter yacht under a certain size, so a tripartite group for the MCA and associated Red Ensign Group flags representing yacht owners, the 'industry' and crew (via the PYA) has been working to find a substantial equivalence to the MLC, 2006 acceptable to the International Labour Organisation (which is responsible for creating the MLC, 2006). As soon as the substantial equivalence is made available, it will be published on superyachtnews.com.
The full MLC, 2006 document is a tome of over 100 pages, which can seem daunting and indigestible. And without prior knowledge of the relevant regulations, it can be hard to pick out the changes in the MLC, 2006.
With this in mind, Döhle Yachts has created a downloadable document and pageturner to help guide the uninitiated through the major impacts and changes entitled 'Maritime Labour Convention: How Will it Affect Superyachts?'
The pamphlet's introduction by Döhle Private Clients' director Rob Tobin comments:
"The Convention is complex and in some areas, crew accommodation being one of them, it will be especially challenging to plan for, design and build yachts in certain size ranges until such time as individual flag states define how they will interpret the Convention, particularly in in industry where vessel design is, by its very nature, often unique.
"However, responsible owners, yacht managers, recruiters, support companies and employers should already be complying with at least 80 per cent of what the Convention will require. As such, the final changes (to well-run yacht, company and supplier operations) need not be as dramatic, or costly, as many seem to believe."
The guide, which Tobin describes as "necessarily brief" addresses sections of the MLC that are most likely to "impact the owning and operating of commercially registered superyachts".
This includes:
Closing his introduction, Tobin comments "We will welcome the ratification of the MLC as a means of ensuring standarisation, and where required, the improvement of working conditions for all those employed afloat."
EB
Related links
Döhle Private Clients Ltd profile | website | download the MLC, 2006 guide
Sea Changes with the PYA
At a recent Professional Yachtsmen's Association (PYA) meeting during the Monaco Yacht Show, CEO of the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency Sir Alan Massey commented that the MLC, 2006 is “a big steam train that has left the station but is not yet down the tracks … its rules are sound for the protection of seafarers and employers, and the intention was good, but the logic was not there for large yachts”.
There has been discussion as to what it will really mean for yachting and, although the MLC, 2006 is predominantly bringing together around 70 pre-existing pieces of legislation on living and working conditions, there are changes that have yet to be clarified for their true impact on yachting.
Some of the biggest concerns have been about the space for cabins, and worries that these are unworkable for a functioning charter yacht under a certain size, so a tripartite group for the MCA and associated Red Ensign Group flags representing yacht owners, the 'industry' and crew (via the PYA) has been working to find a substantial equivalence to the MLC, 2006 acceptable to the International Labour Organisation (which is responsible for creating the MLC, 2006). As soon as the substantial equivalence is made available, it will be published on superyachtnews.com.
The full MLC, 2006 document is a tome of over 100 pages, which can seem daunting and indigestible. And without prior knowledge of the relevant regulations, it can be hard to pick out the changes in the MLC, 2006.
With this in mind, Döhle Yachts has created a downloadable document and pageturner to help guide the uninitiated through the major impacts and changes entitled 'Maritime Labour Convention: How Will it Affect Superyachts?'
The pamphlet's introduction by Döhle Private Clients' director Rob Tobin comments:
"The Convention is complex and in some areas, crew accommodation being one of them, it will be especially challenging to plan for, design and build yachts in certain size ranges until such time as individual flag states define how they will interpret the Convention, particularly in in industry where vessel design is, by its very nature, often unique.
"However, responsible owners, yacht managers, recruiters, support companies and employers should already be complying with at least 80 per cent of what the Convention will require. As such, the final changes (to well-run yacht, company and supplier operations) need not be as dramatic, or costly, as many seem to believe."
The guide, which Tobin describes as "necessarily brief" addresses sections of the MLC that are most likely to "impact the owning and operating of commercially registered superyachts".
This includes:
- Crew accommodation
- Yacht owners liability
- Seafarer employment agreements
- The use of regulated recruitment and placement agencies
- The hours of work and rest and holiday entitlement
- Health protection, medical care and welfare
- Compliant procedures available to seafarers
- Shipowers' and shipmasters' supervision of conditions on their ships
- Flag states' jurisdiction and control over their ships
- Port state inspections of foreign ships
Closing his introduction, Tobin comments "We will welcome the ratification of the MLC as a means of ensuring standarisation, and where required, the improvement of working conditions for all those employed afloat."
EB
Related links
Döhle Private Clients Ltd profile | website | download the MLC, 2006 guide
Sea Changes with the PYA
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