Since leaving the EU, boats arriving in France from the UK or Channel Islands are required to sail to one of a small number of “Ports of Entry” (mainly the ferry ports) and search out the relevant authorities – usually the Police aux Frontières – to register the arrival of their boat and crew.
This same process of going through Ports of Entry would also be necessary before departing France for the UK or Channel Islands (or indeed any non-Schengen country), presenting Cruising Association members, and other sailors coming from the UK to France, with a potential problem for many passages.
The Cruising Association, through its local representatives, has helped to make cruising to France easier, post-Brexit Continue reading “Ports of Entry: French government announces a process to allow entry to cruisers at any French port”
Singapore’s Ministry of Health is tightening its COVID-19 control measures for its maritime workforce after a marine surveyor working for a leading class society and a harbor pilot tested positive for the disease.
The National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) has published its 104 page Safer Sea Digest in pdf format which can be downloaded at the foot of this article. The Digest shares lessons learned as a result of the Board’s many incident and accident investigations in 2019. The aim of the Digest is to focus those who read it on what can and does go wrong and how it can be prevented in the future.
Almost 900,000 UK boaters are due to be hit by restrictions on how long they can stay in Europe after the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December 2020, a new survey by the RYA has found.
