Minimum manning and the paperless ship high priorities in Club sights

InterManager, the international trade association for in-house and third-party ship managers, has set its sights on examining two key areas which could have significant benefits for the shipping industry. First is an investigation of minimum manning levels for different types of vessels trading on different trade routes and carrying different cargo types to determine whether and how these need to be reviewed, better understood for their implications to safety and efficiency and then discussed at flag state level to take into account required rest hours as set under the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC).