IMO creates a new module on the Global Integrated Shipping Information System (GISIS) for crew change and repatriation of seafarers.
As BIMCO says, the IMO has been issuing MSC.1/circ.1 in a series of revision, each time a new Member State informs the IMO of their national focal point of contact for crew change and repatriation of seafarers.
On the 8th of April, the IMO announced that a new module on Crew Change and Repatriation of Seafarers is now available on the Global Integrated Shipping Information System (GISIS).
This is where Member States will enter the information, as done previously by the said circular letter series, directly into this new module, allowing for notification and dissemination of information on national focal point of contact for crew change and repatriation of seafarers to be available expeditiously.
Therefore, this MSC.7/circ.1 series will be discontinued, as the same will now be transferred to the new module.
Explore more on the IMO circular here
