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    Introduction
    This shipping industry Guidance was initially published in of people at a time, it is likely that ships will continue to be
    2014 by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) in called upon to assist by Rescue Co-ordination Centres (RCCs)
    response to the large number of migrants attempting to for the foreseeable future.
    get to Europe and requiring rescue by merchant ships in
    Notwithstanding the immediate motivation for this advice,
    the Mediterranean.1 This second edition has been updated
    it is also applicable in any part of the world where a rescue
    to take account of the recent experience of shipping
    operation involving large numbers of people at sea may be
    companies, Masters and crews. It is also is also supported
    required, including South East Asia.
    by the following industry organisations: ASF, ECSA, ETF, ITF,
    CLIA, Intercargo, Intermanager, Intertanko and IPTA. This Guidance is intended to help shipping companies
    identify and address particular issues that their ships may
    Since the crisis in the Mediterranean began to escalate
    face when required to conduct a large scale rescue. In
    at the start of 2014, over 1,000 merchant ships have so
    particular, matters of primary importance are identified that
    far been involved in migrant rescue operations, assisting
    might be considered when developing ship specific plans and
    with the rescue of more than 50,000 people. While efforts
    procedures, including the needs of those being rescued and
    continue at the political level to reduce the number migrants
    the safety of the ship’s own crew.
    seeking to travel by sea in unseaworthy craft, the industry is
    faced with the increasingly frequent need to conduct large Each recovery operation will have unique characteristics,
    scale rescues, often involving very different challenges to and not all of this advice will be appropriate for every ship.
    conventional rescue operations. However, at least some elements of this Guidance will be
    relevant to most large scale rescue operations.
    While merchant ships are not best suited to conduct large
    scale operations that may involve the rescue of hundreds

    Important Note
    This Guidance is intended as voluntary advice only which shipping companies are not in any way obligated to
    accept, although they are invited to consider its value in the context of their operations and trade.

    It is neither intended nor recommended that this Guidance should in any way be used, adapted or included in
    any form whatsoever by third parties wishing to conduct audits or assessments of a shipping company or a
    ship. The following Guidance should not be regarded as best management practice.

    This Guidance is complementary to Rescue at Sea: A


    Guide to Principles and Practice as Applied to Refugees
    and Migrants updated in 2014 by the United Nations High
    Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in co-operation with
    the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and ICS.

    1 T he United Nations and it agencies sometimes use the term ‘mixed migrants’
    to reflect the fact that the people concerned may be economic migrants
    or refugees.

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