Port Information Leaflets Project

The Mission to Seafarers, Sailors’ Society, Apostleship of the Sea, Centres for Seafarers and Fishermen’s Mission are the main providers of seafarers’ welfare facilities and services in UK ports. In Gibraltar it is the Mediterranean Mission to Seafarers and Apostleship of the Sea (Gibraltar).

To assist societies and ports in complying with Maritime Labour Convention 2006 guidelines which state ‘Information should be disseminated among seafarers concerning facilities open to the general public in ports of call, particularly transport, welfare, entertainment and educational facilities and places of worship, as well as facilities provided specifically for seafarers’, the MNWB is producing Port Welfare Information Leaflets for selected ports in UK and Gibraltar. Thus far the following leaflets have been completed:

• Aberdeen Port Information Leaflet

• Belfast Port Information Leaflet

• Birkenhead Port Information Leaflet

• Bristol Port Information Leaflet

• Cardiff Port Information Leaflet

• Dundee Port Information Leaflet

• Fawley Port Information Leaflet

• Falmouth Port Information Leaflet

• Felixstowe Port Information leaflet

• Gibraltar Port Information Leaflet

• Grangemouth Port Information Leaflet

• Great Yarmouth Port Information Leaflet

• Hull Port Information Leaflet

• Immingham Port Information Leaflet

• Invergordon Port Information Leaflet

• Larne Port Information Leaflet

• Leith Port Information Leaflet

• Liverpool Port Information Leaflet

• Montrose Port Information Leaflet

• Newport Port Information Leaflet

• North Tees Port Information Leaflet

• Plymouth Port Information Leaflet

• Portsmouth Port Information Leaflet

• Port Talbot Port Information Leaflet

• Sharpness Port Information Leaflet

• Southampton Port Information  Leaflet

• South Tees Port Information Leaflet

• Tilbury Port Information Leaflet

• Tyne Port Information Leaflet

• Warrenpoint Port Information Leaflet

Leaflets are being created with the help of the maritime community via Port Welfare Committees and are designed specifically for seafarers visiting busy UK ports. The project has already gained the support of many port authorities, such as: Associated British Ports, Forth Ports, Aberdeen Harbour Board and Bristol Port Company. The leaflets will be produced via MNWB Port Welfare Committees in collaboration with the societies, the respective port authorities and PWC member organisations. The Board is currently investigating the production of leaflets for the ports of Sheerness, Kings Lynn, Harwich, Ipswich, Goole, Pembroke and Seaham.

It is intended that leaflets be considered for accuracy and amendment on an annual basis and reprinted as and when deemed necessary.