Classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has set up a web-based system which will help shipowners cut certification time for the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) dramatically.
BV says the system is needed because some shipowners are leaving it until late to seek the necessary MLC certification.
Veristar Info
On the organisation’s Veristar Info website owners can create and clone the Declaration of Maritime Labour Compliance Part II, the main compliance document needed, across their fleets and submit fleet-wide documents easily for review and certification.
Deadline MLC Looms
Boris Gruden, MLC Implementation Leader for BV, says: ‘Shipowners have to have MLC documentation in place and certified by a Recognised Organisation before August 20 this year or risk detention of their vessels. Some have not even begun to work on this yet. They need to work with their flag states to have the norms for their fleet set out in a document DMLC Part I. Then for each ship they have to prepare a DMLC Part II which must be reviewed and certified by the RO, usually class. The DMLC Part II is built on the requirements set out by the flag state and is ship specific, but most of it is the same for all ships in any one fleet.’
Picture: Web-based submittance tool on Veristar Info.
