The ICSW International Seafarers' Welfare Awards
Seafarers around the world ensure that we get the essential goods and services we need to live our lives and run our economies.
That is why the welfare of seafarers is so important. Access to welfare provision on board ship and when they are ashore is vital for their mental and physical well being.
The ICSW is launching the first International Seafarer Welfare Awards to recognise and encourage excellence in the provision of welfare services and facilities for seafarers. The awards coincide with the IMO International Year of the Seafarer.
The welfare of seafarers is becoming more and more important with the impending ratification of the ILO Maritime Labour Convention and the growing problem of recruiting and retaining seafarers.
The awards are divided into four categories:
- seafarer centre/club of the year
- shipping company of the year
- port of the year
- welfare personality of the year
The first three categories will be nominated by seafarers. The fourth award can be self-nominated or nominated by seafarers' organisations or individuals involved with seafarers' welfare.
Once an organisation is nominated they will then be invited to make a submission to enter the awards.
Nominations are open until 15 September 2010. Entries for the awards close on 24 September 2010. Judging will take place in October, with the awards presented by the IMO Secretary General, Admiral Efthimios Mitropoulos, at an event in London on 1 December 2010.
