Since last month, when the Brazilian Immigration authority took a legalistic approach to seafarers’ identity documents (SID), shipowners have been prevented from making crew changes, and some have been fined for having crewmembers without SIDs issued in the ILO C185 format.   In response to calls from the ILO and consular representations of member states to ILO C185 that still issue SIDs in ILO C108 format due to constraints caused by the ongoing pandemic, as is notably the case of … Continue lendo Immigration authority eases rules on seafarers’ documents