Major improvements to port facilities

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A five-year programme for the development of seafarers’ welfare in the CIS and Baltic states has entered its final year in 2005. The programme was adopted by a regional seminar of the International Committee for Seafarers’ Welfare in Novorossiysk in 1999, and launched in 2000. It is administered by the regionally focused International Confederation of Water Transport Workers’ Unions (ICWTWU), and funded by the ITF Seafarers’ Trust.

In the course of the programme’s implementation, seafarers’ welfare centres have been built or rebuilt in Baku (Azerbaijan), Poti (Georgia), Ventspils and Liepaja (Latvia), Murmansk, Novorossiysk, Nakhodka and Tuapse (Russia), and Mariupol, Kherson, Berdyansk, Belgorod-Dnestrovsky, Odessa, Ilyichevsk and Izmail (the Ukraine).

All the region’s maritime clubs are equipped with vehicles, computers, telephones, and sports and other equipment.

The clubs’ staff have received training in English, IT and management.

Georgia has ratified ILO Convention 163 “On seafarers’ welfare at sea and in port”, and tripartite national committees for seafarers’ welfare have been set up in Georgia, Russia and Lithuania.

There have been exchange visits between welfare centres in Yalta (the Ukraine) and Stockholm (Sweden), Odessa (the Ukraine) and Liverpool (the UK), and Tuapse (Russia) and Venice (Italy).

The progress of the programme’s implementation is being discussed at great length at meetings of the regional committee, which is composed mostly of leaders of seafarers’ unions affiliated to the ITF.

In 2002, such meetings were held in Odessa, Ukraine and Moscow, Russia, in 2003—in Tbilisi (Georgia), Ventspils and Riga (Latvia), and in 2004—in Baku (Azerbaijan) and Tallinn (Estonia).

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Issue 19 April 2005

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