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Home ministry issues SOP to streamline change of crew at Indian ports

Sign-on/sign-off procedures specified for merchant shipping vessels; seafarers to intimate travel and contact history for last 28 days to ship owner or RPS agency

shipping, ports, port, exports, imports
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During transportation, social distancing and other hygiene norms would have to be followed by the vehicle transporting the seafarer to the destination

Aditi Divekar Mumbai
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday issued Standard Operating Procedure (SoP) to streamline sign-on/sign-off of Indian Seafarers at Indian Ports for merchant shipping vessels.  

In the case of signing-on to the ship, the ship owner or the Recruitment and Placement Service (RPS) agency will identify the Indian seafarers for joining a vessel.

Alongside, the seafarers will intimate their travel and contact history for last 28 days to the ship owner or the RPS agency by email, as per procedure laid down by Director General of Shipping (DGS).

Following this, the seafarer would be examined by a DGS-approved medical

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