Improved safety on board passenger boats and small fishing vessels is the aim of a new law being proposed by the Seychelles Maritime Safety Administration (SMSA).
The proposed law is one of the subjects being discussed at a five-day workshop taking place in the island nation on the safety of domestic passenger ferries and fishing vessels. A bill is expected to be submitted for approval next month to the National Assembly — the legislative body of Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean.
“We will be doing two things during this workshop. We will be discussing safety on ferries, in our case the Cat Coco, and safety on small fishing vessels,” said Joachim Valmont, chief executive of the Maritime Safety Administration, told the press on Monday….
Source: Seychelles News Agency
