1. This round supersedes Port Marine Round No. 05 of 2022 with impact from 01 Could 2022.
2. House owners, brokers and masters of vessels arriving within the Port of Singapore are reminded of their accountability to implement and adjust to all prevailing necessities and measures of the Singapore authorities to cut back the chance of COVID-
19 transmission in Singapore, particularly protected administration measures straight relevant to vessels within the Port of Singapore.
3. House owners, brokers and masters of vessels are strongly inspired to conduct operations (e.g. cargo operations, bunkering, ship’s provides and shops, and different marine providers in a contactless method or contactless with segregation protocol. Please seek advice from ANNEX A for particulars on contactless operations and contactless operations with segregation protocols.
4. The proprietor, agent or grasp of the vessel in port should set up and apply procedures and enough controls to make sure the protection of shore-based personnel and the vessel’s crew. Please seek advice from ANNEX B for the necessities for enterprises1 with shore-based personnel boarding vessels at anchorages, shipyards, terminals and marinas within the Port of Singapore. Failure to adjust to the necessities might lead to a breach of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (Port) Rules or the COVID-19 (Non permanent Measures) (Management Order) Rules 2020.
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5. All vessel’s crew should observe the next good practices on protected administration measures whereas within the Port of Singapore:
a)Put on a masks always when contained in the enclosed areas of the vessel (e.g. lodging house, enclosed wheelhouse/bridge, engine room, ship workplace, assembly room, cabin, saloon) except the work exercise requires that no masks be worn;
b)Preserve good hygiene within the vessel’s lodging areas by cleansing often touched surfaces (e.g. desk, chart tables, eating tables, bridge/engine room consoles, door handles, handholds, switches, telephones/VHF handsets, taps).
6. If any of the vessel crew took COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Response (PCR) check at their final port of name, the proprietor, grasp or agent of the vessel shall be sure that the PCR check outcomes are submitted to MPA (e-mail: [email protected]) earlier than the vessel arrives within the Port of Singapore.
ANNEX A
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Contactless operations and contactless operations with segregation protocol
1. House owners, brokers and masters of vessels are strongly inspired to conduct all port operations (e.g.cargo operations, bunkering, ship’s provides and shops, and different marine providers) are carried out contactless or contactless with segregation protocol.
Contactless Operations
2.In circumstance the place a contactless operation is required, no individual is to board the visiting vessel besides MPA-licensed harbour pilots, authorised authorities officers, and individuals authorised by the Port Grasp.
3.Events concerned in a contactless operation should minimally guarantee the next:
a) Talk and/or ship paperwork by phone textual content message or e-mail.
b) If objects have to be transferred from one vessel to a different (e.g. securing of mooring, ship provides; sure paperwork like bunker supply be aware and many others), disinfect these things and tools completely earlier than and after the switch.
4.For transferring of provides, the proprietor, grasp and/or agent of visiting vessels and the providers supplier concerned should guarantee the next:
a)The availability boat’s crew should not board the visiting vessel;
b)Disinfect tools used for the switch of provides completely earlier than and after the switch; and
c)Talk and/or ship paperwork by phone textual content message or e-mail.
Contactless Operations with Segregation Protocol
5.Whether it is crucial for shore-based personnel to board the vessel, segregation protocol needs to be in place to minimise interactions between the vessel’s crew and shore-based personnel. Examples of contactless operations with segregation protocols are bunkering, cargo operations and tank cleansing. House owners, brokers and masters of vessels are required to work with the vacation spot terminals to agree on the segregation protocol earlier than the operations begin.
6.Events concerned in a contactless operation with segregation protocol ought to guarantee the next:
a)Talk and/or ship paperwork by phone textual content or e-mail.
b)If objects are to be transferred from one vessel to a different (e.g. securing of mooring, ship provides and many others), disinfect the objects and tools used for the switch, earlier than and after the switch;
c)Vessel’s crew to stay in crew lodging besides to maintain gangway watch or to hold out important actions akin to tending to mooring ropes;
d)If vessel’s crew are required to go on deck, their actions are to be restricted to the seaward facet of the deck; and
7.For bunkering2 operations, the proprietor, grasp or agent of visiting vessels and repair suppliers concerned should minimally guarantee the next:
a)Bunker barge crew should not board the visiting vessel;
b)Visiting vessel’s crew should not board the bunker barge;
c)Talk and/or ship paperwork (e.g. bunker supply be aware) by phone textual content or e-mail;
d)Visiting vessel’s crew to attach the hose on the vessel’s manifold; and
e)Bunker surveyor should not board the bunker barge.
ANNEX B
Necessities for Enterprises with Shore-Based mostly Personnel Boarding Vessels at Anchorages, Shipyards, Terminals and Marinas, within the Port of Singapore.
1.All homeowners, occupiers and managers of any waterfront facility – i.e. pier, wharf, dock, terminal, marina –should not permit any shore-based personnel who has any specified symptom (coughing, sneezing, breathlessness, a runny nostril, lack of sense of scent or anosmia) or is in any other case bodily unwell, to go on board the vessel.
2.The shore-based personnel, proprietor, agent and grasp should adjust to the measures listed under when any shore-based personnel are on board:
a)All crew members and shore-based personnel should put on applicable private protecting tools akin to face masks when contained in the enclosed areas of the vessel (e.g. lodging house, enclosed wheelhouse/bridge, engine room, ship workplace, assembly room, cabin, saloon) except the work exercise requires that no masks be worn
b)Unwell crew members and/or passengers have to be remoted onboard the vessel.
c)Shore-based personnel who’re unwell have to be denied entry to the vessel.
d)Upon shore-based personnel disembarking the vessel, the vessel shall disinfect the areas which were used and particularly the often touched surfaces.
3.Employers of shore-based personnel are reminded to pay attention to all accessible well being advisories and produce it to the eye of their workers. Employers are accountable to temporary their workers on the COVID-19 necessities and measures,
i.e. relevant necessities and measures earlier than boarding and whereas onboard vessels in port.
4.Failure to adjust to the necessities might lead to a breach of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (Port) Rules or the COVID-19 (Non permanent Measures) (Management Order) Rules 2020.
Supply: MARITIME AND PORT AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE
