Stakeholders at an International Labour Organisation meeting have agreed that seafarers' identity documents should be upgraded to a modern travel document such as an ePassport.Held in Geneva, the tripartite meeting of employers, seafarers' unions and governments aimed to consider improvements to the Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention due to implementation problems.The latest SIDs standards were adopted in 2003, but the convention has failed to achieve widespread implementation.This is because: "the technical standards adopted have been superseded by the technologies and infrastructure now used for the issuance and verification of ePassports", wrote the World Maritime News.The meeting heard that the technical specifications for SIDs should be updated in order to bring them into line with those technologies currently used for ePassports.
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