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CANAL SAFETY CRISIS Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service INDUSTRY WELFARE NL NEWS MN IN WARTIME Why Stena's new Irish The social media training Nautilus NL 'Stronger First-hand account of Sea ferry is something that seeks to improve together' recruitment Arctic seafaring in the of a mixed blessing seafarers' mental health campaign picks up pace First World War Volume 53 | Number 2 | February 2020 | £5 €5.90 CANAL SAFETY CRISIS Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service Opportunities exist for Marine Engineering Officers Officer of the Watch, Second Engineer or Chief Engineer CoC with HND/Foundation Degree in Marine Engineering Systems Engineering Officers/ Electro-Technical Officers You’ll need a Degree or HND in Electrical and Electronic Engineering or an STCW A-lll/6 ETO Certificate of Competency with recent seagoing experience. All candidates must hold STCW 2010 Manila Amendments Update Training and a current ENG1 certificate. Benefits include • Competitive Annual Salaries • Paid Voyage Leave • Competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme • Industry-leading fully funded Study Leave Programme • World Class Comprehensive Training Programme • 100% UK Registered Seafarers • Diverse and Inclusive employer • IMarEst accredited training provider royalnavy.mod.uk/careers/rfa [email protected] 02392 725960 Editor’s CONTENTS letter Volume 53 | Number 2 | February 2020 Just before Christmas, Nautilus was contacted by our Federation partners, a union for tug captains on the Panama Canal known as Unión de telegraph Capitanes y Oficiales de Cubierta (UCOC). It was concerned for 13 Union activists who were either suspended or part suspended without pay by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) COMMENT for speaking up about safety fears brought 12 on by fatigue-inducing work patterns at the 05 General secretary Mark Dickinson expanded Canal. laments the decline of the UCOC officials accused ACP of orchestrating link between owner and flag state a campaign against members. To silence them from the highest levels. NAUTILUS AT WORK With one tug collision and one fatality to date, we ask: What price will be paid for 08 Unpaid wages top list of member that silence?’ Our cover feature, pages 28-31, complaints to Nautilus helpline explores what happens when politics sways 10 Union’s new Equality and Diversity safety decisions. 20 Forum gets underway On pages 20-21 we take a look at the 12 Good news for Gibson House and newly launched Stena Estrid ro-ro, which the Nautilus Welfare Fund charity brings a huge boost to UK ferry capacity and employment opportunities for members. INDUSTRY We ask why an international agreement that cargo handling should be carried out by 14 SUPERYACHTS: Meet Nautilus at trained dock workers rather than seafarers is Antibes crew retention conference being flouted by UK ports onpage 23. 20 SPECIAL FEATURE: Welcome And we extend an invitation to meet investment in UK officer jobs on new with Union officials in March at the Antibes Stena ship marred by flag concerns Improving Yacht Crew Retention conference page 15. Drop by for advice on employment 28 HEALTH AND SAFETY related issues and assistance with the Union’s Commercial Yacht Service Record Book. 17 Death and injuries on Boskalis FPSO after crew drink cleaning fluid 23 ITF Dockers’ Clause meets resistance 28 COVER STORY: A tug union’s fight against the Panama Canal crewing Helen Kelly cuts that are putting safety at risk Nautilus International 32 A look at the latest overview Head of Communications of EMSA casualty figures STAFF ADVERTISING & PRINT MANAGEMENT Although the Telegraph exercises care and Incorporating the Merchant Navy editor: Helen Kelly Century One Publishing caution before accepting advertisements, Journal and Ships’ Telegraph readers are advised to take appropriate ISSN 0040 2575 chief sub-editor: Sarah Robinson Alban Row, 27-31 Verulam Road professional advice before entering into Dutch correspondent: Hans Walthie St Albans, Herts AL3 4DG, UK any commitments such as investments Published by production editor: June Cattini-Walker (including pension plans). Publication of an Nautilus International advertisement does not imply any form of Head of sales: recommendation and Nautilus International Jonathan Knight cannot accept any liability for the quality of tel: +44 (0) 1727 893 894 goods and services offered in advertisements. Organisations offering financial services direct: +44 (0) 1727 739 193 or insurance are governed by regulatory email: [email protected] authorities and problems with such services web: www.centuryonepublishing.uk should be taken up with the appropriate body. February 2020 3 nautilusint.org CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL 22 18 IMO lobbied over fair treatment for seafarers in alleged criminalisation cases ENVIRONMENT 22 GreenSeas beach bin campaign starts to see results in UK resorts CAREERS WHERE'S MY TELEGRAPH? 24 New apprenticeship funding 26 If you have moved recently, your home 25 Maritime CV advice from Nautilus copy may still be trying to catch up with you. 26 Schemes for seafarers to inspire children to take up sea careers To let us know your new address, go to www.nautilusint.org and log in as a WELFARE member, or contact our membership department on +44 (0)151 639 8454 34 Social media training aims to or [email protected]. improve seafarers’ mental health The membership team can also cancel MERCHANT NAVY your print copy if you prefer to read IN WARTIME the telegraph online at nautilusint.org. 37 A seafarer’s story from the First 34 World War – in his own words TECHNOLOGY 40 New textbook aims to help crews GENERAL SECRETARY defend against cyber-attacks Mark Dickinson MSc (Econ) REGULARS DEPARTMENT EMAILS general: [email protected] 6 Letters membership: [email protected] legal: [email protected] 42 Maritime book reviews telegraph: [email protected] 44 Ships of the past industrial: [email protected] 56 Crossword by Mordo young members: [email protected] 57 The face of Nautilus welfare: [email protected] 58 At the back professional and technical: [email protected] Cover image: Panama canal protest Nautilus International also administers the Image: Unión de Capitanes y Oficiales Nautilus Welfare Fund and the J W Slater de Cubierta Fund, which are registered charities. • ‘Stronger together’ Nautilus recruitment drive • Further positive rulings in Van Oord case • Nautilus advice on contracts • Nautilus and its role in vocational education IN THIS • Merchant Navy pension fund accrual unchanged • New CBAs for Hatenboer-Neptunus, Vroon MONTH’S Offshore Services and John T. Essberger DUTCH • Members in offshore catering vote for new CBA • Nautilus gives Amsterdam students job advice PAGES • Nautilus, VWH and Spliethoff reach final p46 agreement on two-year CBA • Onboard news provision assessed • Students at Amsterdam nautical school • Save the date: Nautilus NL annual meeting enthusiastic about study association and symposium 2020 nautilusint.org 4 February 2020 Nautilus general secretary Mark Dickinson FOREWORD Comment Corrosive flags of convenience have undermined national flags, says Nautilus general secretary Mark Dickinson. We must support flag states that exercise effective control ews reached my desk over the New Year that Stena Line’s latest new N build Stena Estrid has, without Gibraltar. Many also feature on the Organisation much fanfare, quietly changed flag for Economic Co-operation and Development’s from the UK to Cyprus (see page 20). (OECD) list of ‘uncooperative tax havens’. Stena Estrid is the first of three Ropax vessels FOCs also spurned the growth of international being built for the company’s Irish Sea routes, and second registers, drove the deregulation of with sister ships Stena Edda and Stena Embla national flags such as the Netherlands and led the expected to commence operations in the spring UK Ship Register to ease eligibility requirements of 2020 and early 2021. I guess we can expect in a vain attempt to appeal to a much broader them to join their sister in Limassol. International shipowner community. Is this another blow to post-Brexit Britain, a law requires International law (UNCLOS) requires registers symbol of wider maritime malaise in the UK, or to maintain a ‘genuine link’ between the flag merely a reflection that no one really cares what registers to of the vessel and the shipowner. This ensures the flag state is anymore? maintain a the flag states can, as the Maritime Labour Hot on the heels of Maersk, CMA-CGM, P&O ‘genuine link’ Convention (MLC) states, ‘effectively exercise Ferries and Carisbrooke Shipping (see March 2019 jurisdiction and control’ over their ships. With comment) this is surely another painful blow to between FOCs that rule is waived, meaning flag states the UK’s continued aspiration to remain a strong the flag of cannot effectively control or regulate ships and growing maritime nation. It is made more the vessel flying their flag. painful because Stena, like P&O Ferries, has opted Flag states therefore rely on port states to in favour of the Cyprus flag of convenience (FOC) and the do their dirty work, and that is why we now ship register (and an EU member state). shipowner have Port State Control. It is why we have the As far back as the 1930s the International International Safety Management Code. It is why Labour Organization (ILO) was concerned about flag states contract out to classification societies. ship registers such as Panama and Liberia, when It is why flag states woo shipowners, calling them predominantly Greek and US shipowners joined ‘customers’. It is why the International Maritime them, seeking to avoid strong seafarer trade Organization (IMO) is criticised as being slow to unions, rising employment costs and labour respond to global developments. regulations. Lack of transparency over ship FOCs at their corrosive best are why we ownership and low or no taxes also appealed. needed the MLC, SOLAS, MARPOL and STCW – In 1948, fearing the erosion of national because national flags were utterly defenceless standards, the International Transport Workers’ against what the maritime author Ian Urbina Federation (ITF) launched a campaign to eradicate refers to as ‘the Outlaw Ocean’ (see books page ‘FOCs’ and drive ships back to national flags.
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