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Research reveals how ship noise 44 a ects marine life To let us know your new address, go to www. nautilusint.org and log in as a Wind power gathers force in the member, or contact our membership shipping industry department on +44 (0)151 639 8454 or membership@ nautilusint.org HISTORY The membership team can also cancel your print copy if you prefer to read the A look back at some pioneering paper on the Telegraph app. women o cers Glasgow college celebrates its half centenary COMPETITION GENERAL SECRETARY Mark Dickinson MSc (Econ) How to win in our Life at Sea photo contest 48 DEPARTMENT EMAILS general: [email protected] membership: [email protected] REGULARS legal: [email protected] telegraph: [email protected] Maritime book reviews industrial: [email protected] young members: [email protected] Ship of the past welfare: [email protected] professional and technical: Crossword and quiz [email protected] The face of Nautilus Nautilus International also administers the Nautilus Welfare Fund and the J W Slater Fund, which are registered charities. • Fascinating symposium about the maritime sector • Nautilus school visits in Rotterdam in 2050 • Dutch unions, including Nautilus, campaign for • Nautilus International General Meeting on better pensions 8-10 October 2019 in Rotterdam IN THIS • Nautilus organises mental health workshop • Court rules against owners of Greenfl eet Crew MONTH’S • Vroon Off shore back to CBA negotiating table after • Nautilus NL annual meeting and symposium on DUTCH members off er petition PAGES 25 June 2019 • Introducing the new Amsterdam Maritime Student • Nautilus advice on special leave p54 Union board • New dredging CBA • New anti-piracy law passed after 10 years of campaigning • How members’ interests are represented at the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine • CBA negotiations with Svitzer Euromed are ended nautilusint.org 4 April 2019 3-4_contents_Apr19_SR checked.indd 4 21/03/2019 09:24 FOREWORD Welcome Nautilus general secretary Mark Dickinson considers the importance of saving for retirement – and explains how the Union is working to ensure members have the best possible pension… ith the fi nancial year drawing to born more recently. The amount received from the an end at work, my thoughts often state is not enough for most people to survive on, W turn in pril to personal fi nancial and pension poverty has been rising as a result. t planning and pensions. aving for is crucial, therefore, to save for retirement and do it retirement is too often our lowest priority, but for as soon as you can. most of us unless we are banking on winning the This is not a new problem, and it is why my lottery it should be one of our greatest concerns. forefathers in the nion campaigned tirelessly s we are all living longer, we need to think more for an industry-wide pension scheme in the . carefully about retirement planning, and it’s never n 18, they succeeded and the defi ned too early to start. esearch suggests that 12 to benefi t scheme was born. t served seafarers well 20 of our earnings need to be saved each year to for many years but eventually had to be closed achieve a decent income in retirement. due to the escalating costs of past and ongoing t autilus we work in many ways to ensure that In the liabilities. ur priority had to be to secure the all our members have access to a decent pension. Netherlands, benefi ts of those in the scheme for their past e participate in industry pension schemes and service and to ensure that existing members’ continuously press employers to provide good we joined the benefi ts were not undermined. quality pensions for members. ut that ob isn’t FNV Pension To replace the , we sought to ensure a helped by employers who have no interest in cost-effective and viable way forward to protect securing a decent retirement for their seafarers, or Action Day retirement saving for maritime professionals. by governments who seem intent on undermining in March to new industry scheme, the nsign etirement lan, the pension rights of their citiens. campaign for was thus created. t remains the only not-for-profi t n the etherlands, we oined the country-wide maritime pension scheme run in partnership by ension ction ay on 18 arch, calling for a fair deal in the nion and the industry. a fair pension for everyone at a time when the the face of survey conducted by nsign last year found a utch government is seeking to cut pension costs. ‘signifi cant disconnect’ between the importance e believe that in a country like the etherlands, government attached to retirement saving by maritime everyone should be able to stop work at a cuts employers and by their staff. hile more than half reasonable time of life and be able to count on a of employers surveyed said pensions ‘were not a decent income. very or only moderately important’ part of their ne of the key issues in is the rapidly overall employee benefi t package, a similar survey increasing state pension age and the fi nancial of maritime professionals found that more than penalty for ‘early’ retirement a particularly four in fi ve regarded pensions as ‘very important’. relevant issue for seafarers and those working in t is vital that the maritime industry supports inland waterways, as these are tough obs where retirement saving for its employees. e can you can’t continue into old age. e are now oining see that governments are constantly seeking to the call for a freee on the state pension age. erode state pensions, and it becomes ever more n the , the age at which we receive our state important to ensure that our members can secure pension has also risen. or those born in the 10s a decent income in retirement. t will be a stain on like me, it is now , and will rise further for those all of us if we fail. April 2019 5 nautilusint.org 5_welcome_SR checked.indd 5 21/03/2019 09:25 LETTERS What’s on your mind? Tell your colleagues in Nautilus International – and the wider world of shipping.