Tokyo and Paris MoUs Launch Joint Campaign on Crew Wages and Seafarer Employment Compliance

The Tokyo and Paris Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) on Port State Control will collaborate on a joint Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) focusing on Crew Wages and Seafarer Employment Agreements (MLC, 2006) starting from September 1. The aim of this campaign is to raise awareness in the shipping industry regarding the regulations on crew wages and seafarer employment agreements (MLC, 2006) and ensure that ships are in compliance with these requirements.

Scheduled to run for three months, the inspection campaign will specifically target areas related to crew wages, seafarer employment agreements (SEAs), and financial securities (such as repatriation and shipowners’ liability) under MLC, 2006 during regular port State control inspections. Each ship will only undergo one inspection under this CIC throughout the campaign period.

Port State Control Officers will utilize a predefined questionnaire to evaluate the adherence of crew wages, seafarer employment agreements, and financial securities to the relevant MLC requirements. If any non-conformities are identified, the port State may take various actions ranging from recording deficiencies and instructing the master to rectify them within a specified timeframe to detaining the ship until the serious deficiencies are corrected or a plan of action is accepted. Detentions will be published in the monthly detention lists of the Tokyo and Paris MoU websites. The results of the campaign will be analyzed and presented to the governing bodies of both MoUs, potentially leading to submission to the ILO and IMO.

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