Substandard shipping


Maritime unions RMT and Nautilus have called for a public inquiry into the coastal cargo sector and a crackdown on substandard shipping in European waters.


Their demands follow the publication of a Maritime Accident Investigation Branch report into the sinking of the Cypriot-registered cement carrier Cemfjord off the Scottish coast in January 2015, in which all eight crew members died. 


RMT general secretary Mick Cash said that the report “catalogues a series of safety failures on the part of regulators, ship owners and managers”.


Nautilus senior national secretary Allan Graveson called on the European Maritime Safety Agency “to take substantive action to ensure that all ships sailing under member state flags are maintained to appropriate safety.” 


www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-calls-for-public-inquiry-into-coastal-cargo-sector

https://www.nautilusint.org/en/what-we-say/nautilus-news/nautilus-calls-for-european-safety-crackdown