Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

Certification of Able Seamen Convention, 1946 (No. 74) - Guinea - Bissau (Ratification: 1977)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee notes the statement in the Government's 1987 report that there are no vessels in the country covered by the Convention. In its report on Convention No. 69, the Government indicates, however, that a number of small vessels do make internal sea voyages of up to one day between the Bijagos Islands. The Committee recalls that under section 48 of Legislative Decree No. 459968 of 1964, all types of vessels intended to put to sea for commercial reasons are deemed to be seagoing vessels. Since Article 1 of the present Convention also requires the appropriate certification of any person engaged on any vessel as an able seaman, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would clarify the manner in which effect is now given to the Convention in this respect.