ICS和ITF致函联合国: 全球每月10万海员换班, 各国应豁免禁令!
发布时间：2020-03-20 来源： 打印 作者： 字号：小中大
当前，新冠病毒在全球范围内大爆发，给船员换班带来了前所未有的挑战，已经影响到了全球航运运输的供应链，为了呼吁各国给予船员换班以便利和豁免，国际航运公会（ICS）和国际运输工人联合会（ITF）向联合国各机构发出了联合公开信。
信中提到：商船和船员承担着全球90%以上的贸易运输，尤其是疫情期间，对各国的物资保障更为重要。全球船舶每月都有约100,000名海员的换班需求，以便他们能够继续在海上安全地运输，希望各国给予世界范围内流动换班的海员以适当的旅行限制禁令豁免，以保持世界海上运输供应链的正常运转。
以下为国际航运公会（ICS）和国际运输工人联合会（ITF）向联合国各机构发出的联合公开信 译文 和 英文 原文。
促进船员流动和换班，使世界贸易在新冠疫情危机中得以发展
致：
联合国国际劳工组织总干事
联合国国际海事组织秘书长
联合国贸易和发展会议秘书长
世界卫生组织总干事
随着新冠疫情在世界各地的爆发，至关重要的是，各国政府必须继续允许商业船舶进入世界各地的港口，我们代表国际航运公会（ICS）（代表世界各国船东协会和全球80％以上的商船船队）以及国际运输工人联合会（ITF）（代表全球约200万名海员，他们经营着全球国际贸易的商船），呼吁各国出台便利船员换班和流动的措施，以保障海上贸易的发展。
在新冠疫情下，对于世界各国政府来说，重要的是要充分了解全球贸易中约有90％是通过航运商业运输来实现的，包括世界上人们必需的食品、能源和原材料以及制成品和组件，以及疫情期间各国需要的重要医疗用品和在超市出售的许多产品，都需要航运来完成运输，如果没有商船运输，现代社会根本无法运转。
在这个全球危机时期，保持供应链的开放以及海上贸易和运输的畅通发展，比以往任何时候都更为重要。
特别是，这意味着各国要通过商船运输来保持世界各港口的通航能力，并促进船员的更换和船员的流动，并尽可能减少障碍。
为了遵守相关国际海事法规，管理安全工作时间和船员福利，全球在运营的船舶上每个月都有约100,000名海员需要换班，以便他们能够继续在海上安全地运输。
因此，我们希望强调的至关重要的一点，各国必须给予世界范围内流动换班的海员以适当的旅行限制禁令豁免，以保持世界海上运输供应链的正常运转。
考虑到他们在全球病毒大流行时期的重要作用，我们建议，无论国籍如何，职业海员都应被视为任何其他国际“关键工人”，例如机组人员和医务人员，应该特别考虑他们，尽管有必要遵守紧急卫生协议，但在寻求往返船上和换班时要有务实的举措和切实的理解。
因此，我们呼吁您的组织与您的成员国政府一起强调此问题的至关重要性。
我们紧急要求将此主题添加到适当的高级别会议的议程中，并应鼓励您所在组织成员国中的国家主管部门，立即与其国家船东协会和国家海员工会进行接触，以寻求针对这一严重问题的快速解决方案，否则可能会阻碍全球应对新冠疫情大流行的努力。
此致敬礼
国际航运公会秘书长Guy Platten
国际运输工人联合会秘书长Stephen Cotton
公开信英文原文
JOINTOPEN LETTER TO UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES FROM THE GLOBAL MARITIMETRANSPORT INDUSTRY
To:
Director General, United Nations International Labour Organization
Secretary-General, United Nations International Maritime Organization
Secretary-General, United NationsConference on Trade and Development
Director General, World Health Organization.
Facilitating Crew Changes to Keep World Trade Moving Throughout the Covid-19 Crisis
As the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold it is vital that all government skeep maritime trade moving by continuing to allow commercial ships access to ports worldwide and by facilitating the movement and rapid change over of ships’ crews.
We are writing on behalf of the International Chamber Shipping (ICS),which represents the world’s national shipowners’ association sand over 80% of the world’s merchant shipping tonnage, and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), which speaks on behalf of approximately two million seafarers who operate the world’s internationally-trading commercial ships.
As the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold, it is important for the world’s governments to fully understand that around 90% of global trade is transported by commercial shipping, which moves the world’s food,energy and raw materials, as well as manufactured goods and components – including vital medical supplies and many products sold in supermarkets, items that are necessary (due to complex supply chains) for the preservation of many jobs in manufacturing –without which modern society simply cannot function.
In this time of global crisis, it is more important than ever to keep supply chains open and maritime trade and transport moving.
In particular, this means keeping the world’s ports open for calls by visiting commercial ships, and facilitating crew changes and the movement of ships’ crews with as few obstacles as possible.
Every month, around 100,000 seafarers need to be changed over from the ships which they operate in order to comply with relevant international maritime regulations, governing safe working hours and crew welfare, so that they can continue to transport global trade safely.
We therefore wish to emphasise the vital need for the world’s professional merchant seafarers to be granted appropriate exemptions from any national travel restrictions, when joining or leaving their ships, in order to keep the world’s maritime supply chains functioning.
In view of their vital role during the global pandemic, we suggest that professional seafarers, regardless of nationality, should be treated as any other international ‘key workers’, such as airline crew and medical personnel. As such, they should be afforded special consideration and, not with standing the need to comply with emergency health protocols, treated with pragmatism and understanding when seeking to travel to and from their ships.
We therefore call on your organisations to highlight the critical importance of this issue with the governments of your member states.
We request, as a matter of urgency, that this topic be added to the agenda of appropriate high level meetings, and that national authorities in your organisations’ member states should been couraged to engage immediately with their national shipowners’ association and national seafarers’ union, in order to find rapid solutions to this serious problem which otherwise risks impeding global efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yours faithfully,
Guy Platten, Secretary General,International Chamber of Shipping
Stephen Cotton, General Secretary, International Transport Workers Federation
END
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信中提到：商船和船员承担着全球90%以上的贸易运输，尤其是疫情期间，对各国的物资保障更为重要。全球船舶每月都有约100,000名海员的换班需求，以便他们能够继续在海上安全地运输，希望各国给予世界范围内流动换班的海员以适当的旅行限制禁令豁免，以保持世界海上运输供应链的正常运转。
以下为国际航运公会（ICS）和国际运输工人联合会（ITF）向联合国各机构发出的联合公开信 译文 和 英文 原文。
促进船员流动和换班，使世界贸易在新冠疫情危机中得以发展
致：
联合国国际劳工组织总干事
联合国国际海事组织秘书长
联合国贸易和发展会议秘书长
世界卫生组织总干事
随着新冠疫情在世界各地的爆发，至关重要的是，各国政府必须继续允许商业船舶进入世界各地的港口，我们代表国际航运公会（ICS）（代表世界各国船东协会和全球80％以上的商船船队）以及国际运输工人联合会（ITF）（代表全球约200万名海员，他们经营着全球国际贸易的商船），呼吁各国出台便利船员换班和流动的措施，以保障海上贸易的发展。
在新冠疫情下，对于世界各国政府来说，重要的是要充分了解全球贸易中约有90％是通过航运商业运输来实现的，包括世界上人们必需的食品、能源和原材料以及制成品和组件，以及疫情期间各国需要的重要医疗用品和在超市出售的许多产品，都需要航运来完成运输，如果没有商船运输，现代社会根本无法运转。
在这个全球危机时期，保持供应链的开放以及海上贸易和运输的畅通发展，比以往任何时候都更为重要。
特别是，这意味着各国要通过商船运输来保持世界各港口的通航能力，并促进船员的更换和船员的流动，并尽可能减少障碍。
为了遵守相关国际海事法规，管理安全工作时间和船员福利，全球在运营的船舶上每个月都有约100,000名海员需要换班，以便他们能够继续在海上安全地运输。
因此，我们希望强调的至关重要的一点，各国必须给予世界范围内流动换班的海员以适当的旅行限制禁令豁免，以保持世界海上运输供应链的正常运转。
考虑到他们在全球病毒大流行时期的重要作用，我们建议，无论国籍如何，职业海员都应被视为任何其他国际“关键工人”，例如机组人员和医务人员，应该特别考虑他们，尽管有必要遵守紧急卫生协议，但在寻求往返船上和换班时要有务实的举措和切实的理解。
因此，我们呼吁您的组织与您的成员国政府一起强调此问题的至关重要性。
我们紧急要求将此主题添加到适当的高级别会议的议程中，并应鼓励您所在组织成员国中的国家主管部门，立即与其国家船东协会和国家海员工会进行接触，以寻求针对这一严重问题的快速解决方案，否则可能会阻碍全球应对新冠疫情大流行的努力。
此致敬礼
国际航运公会秘书长Guy Platten
国际运输工人联合会秘书长Stephen Cotton
公开信英文原文
JOINTOPEN LETTER TO UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES FROM THE GLOBAL MARITIMETRANSPORT INDUSTRY
To:
Director General, United Nations International Labour Organization
Secretary-General, United Nations International Maritime Organization
Secretary-General, United NationsConference on Trade and Development
Director General, World Health Organization.
Facilitating Crew Changes to Keep World Trade Moving Throughout the Covid-19 Crisis
As the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold it is vital that all government skeep maritime trade moving by continuing to allow commercial ships access to ports worldwide and by facilitating the movement and rapid change over of ships’ crews.
We are writing on behalf of the International Chamber Shipping (ICS),which represents the world’s national shipowners’ association sand over 80% of the world’s merchant shipping tonnage, and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), which speaks on behalf of approximately two million seafarers who operate the world’s internationally-trading commercial ships.
As the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold, it is important for the world’s governments to fully understand that around 90% of global trade is transported by commercial shipping, which moves the world’s food,energy and raw materials, as well as manufactured goods and components – including vital medical supplies and many products sold in supermarkets, items that are necessary (due to complex supply chains) for the preservation of many jobs in manufacturing –without which modern society simply cannot function.
In this time of global crisis, it is more important than ever to keep supply chains open and maritime trade and transport moving.
In particular, this means keeping the world’s ports open for calls by visiting commercial ships, and facilitating crew changes and the movement of ships’ crews with as few obstacles as possible.
Every month, around 100,000 seafarers need to be changed over from the ships which they operate in order to comply with relevant international maritime regulations, governing safe working hours and crew welfare, so that they can continue to transport global trade safely.
We therefore wish to emphasise the vital need for the world’s professional merchant seafarers to be granted appropriate exemptions from any national travel restrictions, when joining or leaving their ships, in order to keep the world’s maritime supply chains functioning.
In view of their vital role during the global pandemic, we suggest that professional seafarers, regardless of nationality, should be treated as any other international ‘key workers’, such as airline crew and medical personnel. As such, they should be afforded special consideration and, not with standing the need to comply with emergency health protocols, treated with pragmatism and understanding when seeking to travel to and from their ships.
We therefore call on your organisations to highlight the critical importance of this issue with the governments of your member states.
We request, as a matter of urgency, that this topic be added to the agenda of appropriate high level meetings, and that national authorities in your organisations’ member states should been couraged to engage immediately with their national shipowners’ association and national seafarers’ union, in order to find rapid solutions to this serious problem which otherwise risks impeding global efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yours faithfully,
Guy Platten, Secretary General,International Chamber of Shipping
Stephen Cotton, General Secretary, International Transport Workers Federation
END
