Shipping: Working Hours

(asked on 27th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the World Maritime University’s EVREST report on the regulation of seafarers’ hours of rest and work, published in 2020, what steps the Maritime and Coastguard Agency is taking in response to the recommendations in that report.


Answered by
Robert Courts Portrait
Robert Courts
Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
This question was answered on 1st February 2022

The United Kingdom supported the World Maritime University’s EVREST report at its presentation at the Special Tripartite Committee of the International Labour Organization in April 2021. The report is due to be considered by the International Maritime Organization Maritime Safety Committee in April 2022, and the UK has co-sponsored the World Maritime University’s paper proposing work in response to their report.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) and their social partners agreed to wait for the outcome of this meeting before discussing further. The MCA takes seafarer fatigue seriously and will continue to enforce the current rules, work at an international level to improve the international standards in this area, and work with social partners to improve understanding of fatigue.

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