The China office of BIMCO on Monday (12 October) issued an update stating the Chinese government has now allowed international crew changes at ten local ports:
According to our Shanghai office, 7 Chinese governmental bodies including the Ministry of Transportation (MOT) have released a notice last week announcing that 10 Chinese ports will resume foreign crew change operations with certain requirements in place, taking into account of the current COVID-19 situation.
The 10 ports allowing for foreign crew change are Dalian, Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Haikou.
All shipping companies are advised to comply with the requirements set out in the said notice when effecting crew change which are as follows:
Foreign crew signing off
In addition to the above, all shipping companies are advised to:
The said notice introduces a quarantine circuit-breaker mechanism. It operates in the following manner; a shipping company’s foreign crew change operations will be suspended for 15 days if there were 5 tested positive cases detected in their ship aggregate; or suspended for 30 days if there was found 10 tested positive cases in their ship aggregate. More than 10 tested positive cases found, the shipping company will not be allowed to operate until they pass a fresh assessment conducted by the relevant authorities.
It is BIMCO’s understanding that the various Chinese ports may take different pragmatic approaches when dealing with the foreign crew change. In practice, the final say lies ultimately with the local port government (the city’s leading group office of epidemic prevention and control) instead of the MOT in Beijing. As such, BIMCO recommends that members planning to have crew change conducted in China, to consult their local agents for the latest requirements implemented by the port in question.
The original update from BIMCO can be found here.
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