Current Designated War Like Area

12 miles off the coast of Somalia and Somaliland

This is the only area designated as of today's date

IBF Warlike Operations Areas Committee

The IBF Framework TCC Agreement provides that seafarers serving on ships operating in areas of warlike operations should be entitled to additional employment benefits. The areas designated as qualifying for these additional payments are specified by the IBF Warlike Operations Areas Committee.

The rules of the Committee provide that it should meet at least once per year to review the overall situation concerning warlike operations around the World, and that it should also meet if certain objective measures of the threat of warlike operations are satisfied in respect of particular countries.

Members of the Committee are:

JNG

• Mr. Norbert Aschmann, IMEC Executive Committee
• Mr. Bob Goodall, Dorchester Maritime Ltd., IMEC
• Mr. Yasuhisa Tsujimoto, Director General, ISEG
• Ms. Shoko Doi, UK Representative, ISEG

ITF

• Mr. Hideo Ikeda, AJSU, Japan
• Mr. Sakae Idemoto, AJSU, Japan
• Mr. Tomas Abrahamsson, SEKO, Sweden
• Mr. Vadim Ivanov, SUR, Russia
• Mr. Igor Pavlov, SUR, Russia

Joint Secretariat

• Mr. David Dearsley, Secretary JNG
• Mr. Konstantin Makarov, IBF/FOC Policy Advisor
• Mr. Stephen Cotton, Secretary SSD