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NEWS & ANALYSIS

Seafarers ... Get Some Rest!

ith global focus on the mariner courtesy of In recent years there has been a growing concern

MLC2006, reinforced by a number of high regarding hours of rest for watch keeping personnel.

Wpro? le catastrophic maritime casualties that Supported by PSC inspection results and a number of are directly linked to “the human factor,” preliminary incidents, the Paris and Tokyo MoU, as well as other results from the Paris MoU should be disturbing at MoUs, decided to organize a joint campaign to the least. verify a list of 10 selected items against

Preliminary results from the Concen- the STCW requirements. The CIC trated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on questionnaire was completed dur-

STCW Hours of Rest, carried out ing 4,041 inspections. between September and Novem- “Insuf? cient rest of watch ber 2014 in the Paris MoU re- keeping personnel has al- “Insuf