Singapur zatvoren od jucer i do nadaljnjeg (sign-off only).
PORT MARINE CIRCULAR
NO. 31 OF 2020
24 July 2020
Shipping Community
REVISIONS TO CREW CHANGE FOR CARGO SHIPS UNDER SPECIAL
CIRCUMSTANCES IN THE PORT OF SINGAPORE, TO MINIMISE RISK OF
COMMUNITY SPREAD OF THE CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 (COVID-19) IN
SINGAPORE
(SUPPLEMENTARY TO PMC NO.s 26 AND 27 OF 2020)
1. Crew changes in the Port of Singapore have been carried out under the
requirements in Port Marine Circulars No.s 26 and 27 of 2020.
2. In view of the recent cases of crew members who are tested positive for COVID-
19 upon arrival in Singapore, which posed a health risk to the crew that travel with
them, to the ships they were to join, and to the local community, MPA is working with
the industry taskforce to provide more detailed guidelines to safeguard the crew
change process. These will include the need for signing-on crew to self-isolate for the
14 days before departing for Singapore, shipowners, managers and agents ensuring
accurate COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests, and direct transfers to
the ship upon arrival in Singapore.
3. With immediate effect, MPA will give priority to applications from Singapore-
registered ships and applications for sign-off crew only (i.e. without signing-on new
crew). For all other cases, MPA will consider the following circumstances for crew
change applications:
(a) the crew has served his/her maximum time on board and no further extension
of the employment contract is granted by the flag State; or
(b) compassionate grounds e.g. death of immediate family member; or
(c) the crew is no longer medically fit to work onboard the ship.
4. Cargo ships meeting paragraph 3 criteria and circumstances may submit their
applications to MPA by filling up the online form at least 14 days before the planned
crew changes, at
www.mpa.gov.sg/web/portal/home/port-of-
singapore/operations/crew-change.
5. Pending other further revisions of the crew change requirements or related
guidelines, ship owners, managers and agents planning for crew change under special
circumstances should continue to abide by the crew change requirements in Port
Marine Circular no.26 and 27 of 2020.
CAPT KEVIN WONG
PORT MASTER
MARITIME AND PORT AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE