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Designating transport workers, including seafarers, as keyworkers and ensuring such workers’ needs and challenges are voiced during a pandemic are among the recently published recommendations from a joint United Nations and industry sector action group.
The Joint Action Group was established in December 2021 to review the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world’s transport workers and the global supply chain. The Group included IMO, the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the International Chamber of shipping (ICS) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), and air and road entities.
The recommendations of the Joint Action Group to review the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world’s transport workers and the global supply chain (JAG-TSC) aim to minimize adverse impacts on transport workers, their families and global trade and supply chains, while at the same time ensuring that public health needs are fully safeguarded and local communities are protected.
IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim signed [ICD1] [HD2] the recommendations document on 27 January 2022, along with the Heads of the other involved UN entities.
The 23 recommendations include, inter alia:
Amongst specific recommendations for IMO, ILO and ICAO:
Amongst specific recommendations for Governments:
IMO action during the pandemic
The recommendations reflect IMO’s calls made during the COVID-19 pandemic to designate seafarers as key workers and joint calls to collaborate on seafarer issues.
Furthermore, IMO’s Facilitation Committee has adopted amendments to the Facilitation Convention (which enter into force on 1 January 2024), to include provisions derived from lessons learned during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Contracting Governments and their relevant public authorities are required to allow ships and ports to remain fully operational during a PHEIC, in order to maintain complete functionality of global supply chains to the greatest extent possible. Public authorities are also required to designate port workers and ships’ crew as key workers (or equivalent), regardless of their nationality or the flag of their ship, when in their territory.
Joint Action Group to review the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world’s transport workers and the global supply chain (JAG-TSC)
The Joint Action Group to review the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world’s transport workers and the global supply chain (JAG-TSC) was established at a meeting of the Director-Generals of the ILO and the WHO with the heads of international transport organizations and federations on 6 December 2021. The JAG-TSC discussed serious and urgent challenges faced by transport workers resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, with a view to minimizing adverse impacts on transport workers, their families, global trade and supply chains, while at the same time ensuring that public health needs are fully safeguarded, and local communities are protected.
Additionally, the UN Secretary General’s Executive Committee has established a UN interagency Task Force on the impact of COVID-19 on seafarers, that has been requested to take into account, as appropriate, the outcomes of the JAG-TSC, and, inter alia, has requested the ILO and the IMO to advise the UN Development Cooperation JAG-TSC 2 Office (DCO) and UN Resident Coordinators (UNRCs) on potential targeted and coordinated outreach efforts to better inform national decisionmakers and the general public on the challenges posed by health emergencies to seafarers, including gender-specific threats, shipping and supply chains.
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