Strict adherence to Stay-Home-Notice for crew changes

22 Jul 2020 / Singapore

From our recent investigations and sampling checks, we found that there has been an increasing number of breaches with regard to the sign-on crew’s compliance with the Stay-Home-Notice (SHN) advisory.

Some breaches include:

a) Sign-on crew commencing their travel to Singapore on the 13th/14th day of their SHN, hence not fulfilling the 14-days SHN at their home country.

b) Sign-on leaving their place of residence to do non-essential activities while serving their 14-days SHN such as shifting of cars, retail shopping, dining out, etc.

c) Failure to avoid interaction with household members.

d) Failure to isolate in an individual room and use a dedicated toilet.

The above listed examples are contraventions of our requirements and poses a serious risk to the public health of Singapore…

…Separately, we have also received submissions of fraudulent and dubious documents such as post-dated COVID-19 PCR test reports and edited crew self-declaration reports.

Any breach of Singapore’s crew change requirements and procedures may lead to the revocation and/or suspension of crew change applications permanently or for a specified period for your company and/or the industry.

(For further details and updates, as well as information about operations in Singapore, contact GAC Singapore at [email protected])

Source: Notification from Maritime Port Authority (MPA) dated 22 July 2020

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