Coping with Piracy Guidance for Seafarers
The ITF has been working hard to ensure that ship owners and governments take
full responsibility for the safety of seafarers from piracy, and to ensure that
seafarers are not left to cope with piracy on their own.
Employers' duty of care
The ITF believes that ships should only transit the Gulf of Aden and the coast
of Somalia in exceptional circumstances. The risk of attack is now so great
that putting seafarers in harm's way amounts to a breach of the shipowner's
duty of care.
Ships should only transit the area with the protection of naval vessels, or if
the ship is classified as low risk and has certain protection measures in place.
High Risk Area
The ITF's International Bargaining Forum (IBF) collective agreement contains a
designated High Risk Area, in addition to existing Warlike Operations Area.
This High Risk area includes the entire Gulf of Aden and extends 400 miles east
of Somalia (for full details, please download the IBF High Risk Area document
on the right of this page).
Your rights
If your ship is covered by the ITF IBF collective agreement, and it is due to
sail into the designated High Risk Area, you have the right to be repatriated
at the company's expense before transiting the High Risk Area, EXCEPT when the
ship transits only through the International Recommended Transit Corridor
(IRTC) patrolled by international navies.
If you are sailing into the High Risk Area and your ship is covered by the ITF
IBF collective agreement, you are entitled to:
* receive a bonus equal to 100% of your basic wages; and
* receive double compensation in case of death or injury.
The bonus and enhanced compensation apply during the entire period of transit
through the High Risk Area, regardless of whether the ship is inside or outside
the IRTC.
Similar provisions exist in the ITF TCC, ITF Standard, and many national
collective agreements.
Check the provisions in your own collective agreement, or contact your union
for assistance.
Find out which union covers your ship, by clicking on `Look Up a Ship' at the
top of the page. To find contact information for the union, click `Find an
Inspector or Union'.
For more information on ITF collective agreements, click on `Your Rights' and
then `What are ITF Agreements?'
Piracy prevention what is your employer doing?
The ITF is one of the organisations that have helped to develop the following
advice on the protection of seafarers and ships at risk from piracy.
You should read this advice. A significant number of ship owners are not
following these best practices and are in clear breach of their duty of care to
seafarers.
* Best Management Practices to Deter Piracy
* Surviving Piracy Off the Coast of Somalia
* Citadels: Industry Guidance
http://www.itfseafarers.org/coping-with-piracy.cfm
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