I imagine it’d be helpfully. With eu citizenship you can work anywhere in the euro zone, without it you need a work visa. Not sure how they handle mariner licensing, protectionist policies between the different countries though.
Cabotage.
N[QUOTE=LI_Domer;124025]I imagine it’d be helpfully. With eu citizenship you can work anywhere in the euro zone, without it you need a work visa. Not sure how they handle mariner licensing, protectionist policies between the different countries though.[/QUOTE]
I’m wondering about that, there are no protectionist policies for regular workers across the EU (anyone can work anywhere, usually), but I don’t know if mariners are governed under different rules.
Many countries in the EU are tax havens, you just need to know how to play them, work in one live in another is a very common play.
Only problem US nationals have is the US government as its the global police force for its own citizens.
AFAIK only US flag vessels have that rule that you must be US citizen…anyone?
PS STCW-95 is the global system for license standards and everybody follows it to a tee except…??
No, cabotage and citizenship requirements are quite common around the world. Large flags of convenience no, but there are plenty of places you can’t just go work on a vessel without being a citizen or permanent resident.
If you are an EU citizen then you can work anywhere in Europe, with the exception of Norwegian waters, they have some protectionist rules there but I’ve heard that they seem to be relaxing them more and more lately as they have a little bit of a shortage of seafarers.
There seems to be quite a few Canadian’s working over in European waters, so I don’t imagine that it would be much more difficult for Americans to do it too.
[QUOTE=follow40;124211]If you are an EU citizen then you can work anywhere in Europe, with the exception of Norwegian waters, they have some protectionist rules there…[/QUOTE]
Well, Norway is not part of the European Union…
[QUOTE=follow40;124211]If you are an EU citizen then you can work anywhere in Europe, with the exception of Norwegian waters, they have some protectionist rules there but I’ve heard that they seem to be relaxing them more and more lately as they have a little bit of a shortage of seafarers.
There seems to be quite a few Canadian’s working over in European waters, so I don’t imagine that it would be much more difficult for Americans to do it too.[/QUOTE]
You need to speak a Scandinavian language to work in Norwegian waters. I don’t think that requirement is removed in the near future. And it’s not a problem to get work her as long as you have the papers, the Norwegian fleet has loads of foreigners working on the ships.
[QUOTE=Tups;124212]Well, Norway is not part of the European Union…[/QUOTE]
They are not part of the European Union, but it gets a bit confusing as there are different rules coming from the Schengen Area, European Free Trade Association and European Economic Area which allow free movement of people and some other stuff, not sure how it affects employment law etc…
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[QUOTE=Kraken;124213]You need to speak a Scandinavian language to work in Norwegian waters. I don’t think that requirement is removed in the near future. And it’s not a problem to get work her as long as you have the papers, the Norwegian fleet has loads of foreigners working on the ships.[/QUOTE]
Yeah there are a lot of Filipino’s working in Norwegian waters, apparently they can’t get young people to go to sea anymore as there are so many high salary jobs ashore they are running out of new blood so are having to look to Eastern Europe and the East Asia to fill the manning gap.
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Yeah there are a lot of Filipino’s working in Norwegian waters, apparently they can’t get young people to go to sea anymore as there are so many high salary jobs ashore they are running out of new blood so are having to look to Eastern Europe and the East Asia to fill the manning gap.[/QUOTE]
That’s just the BS the shipping companies feed the press with, the problem is that they don’t won’t to pay a Norwegian salary.