Non-conformity continues to fall

The Covid-19 pandemic is creating significant challenges for ship operators and seafarers, but new research from the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has highlighted that, for users of its ISF Watchkeeper software, incidents of non-conformities have continued to drop to increasingly lower levels over the past year. The ICS software, which tracks more than 25 million hours of work on board ships undertaken each month by seafarers, has identified that the rate of non-conformance reduced by 25 per cent in the last 12-month period. The trends provide some good news that seafarers appear to still be able to manage shipboard working arrangements in accordance with IMO and ILO regulations during the Covid-19 pandemic.