To: All seafarers serving onboard UAE registered ships.
To: All Port Authorities in UAE.
To: All registered UAE ship owners.
To: All ship managers, operators, agents and anyone who engage with seafarer's services onboard UAE flag ships.
To: all Classification Societies Authorized in UAE.
The Federal Transport Authority for Land and Maritime (FTA) as the competent maritime administration in the United Arab Emirates, and in light of the precautionary measures taken by the FTA to prevent an outbreak of the Corona Virus (COVID-19), and in accordance to the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watch keeping for seafarers 1978, as amended (STCW) Convention, and in order to comply with the relevant international procedures on facilitating maritime trade during the COVID-19 pandemic, and in reference to the IMO Circular Letter No.4204/Add.55 on the encouragement of member states to extend the validity of seafarers certificates for crews of its flag ships associated with the STCW Convention, as well as their acceptance of extensions to these cer...