Maritime Academy
IBF — Warlike and High-Risk Areas
Read designation dates and the vessel CBA alongside the area name.
Determine IBF/TCC/ITF applicability from agreements. This guide does not decide individual pay claims or disputes.
Your action sequence at a glance
CBA coverage
Current designation
Information/rights check
Position/time evidence
MASTER • RESPONSIBLE OFFICER • COMPANY
Start with these 6 checks
- Identify vessel CBA and IBF/TCC coverage.
- Open latest official annex and record version.
- Compare route, ports, coordinates and validity period.
- Provide crew information through authorised procedures.
- Verify benefits/refusal/repatriation against CBA/current annex.
- Keep entry/exit and crewing/office records controlled.
Educational checklist. Completion is not operational/compliance approval; use the relevant vessel permits/forms separately.
Documents to have available
Select a card to open document guidance. Obtain vessel-specific documents through authorised ship/company systems.
Vessel CBA and annexes
Obtain the vessel’s current CBA and annexes from authorised company crewing/personnel staff or the ship’s controlled document system. Verify vessel applicability, parties, validity and IBF/TCC coverage. This public site does not hold the vessel-specific agreement.
Current IBF/ITF designation list
Open the latest attachment on the official page. Check publication/revision and effective dates, coordinates, port coverage and extensions. Select the IBF or ITF list according to the vessel’s agreement.
ITF Seafarers — IBF Warlike and High Risk Areas ↗ ITF Seafarers — Risk designations and entitlements ↗Notification and crew-request records
Use company-approved notification and crew-request forms. Check that authorised staff record the notification date, relevant area/voyage and requests received. Keep personal records in the controlled ship/company system; do not upload them here.
Voyage/entry-exit records and office confirmations
Gather entry/exit dates, times and positions, the relevant voyage plan and company confirmations from controlled ship records. Associate the designation-list version with the records. Vessel-specific records are not public.
Open rules and technical detail
1 · Which agreement applies?
Use IBF designations for IBF-covered ships and applicable ITF designations for TCC arrangements. Keep CBA/annexes accessible and current, and provide required crew information. Do not transplant another vessel’s benefits table.
Reference: ITF Seafarers — Risk designations and entitlements ↗2 · Obtain the latest publisher version
Open the latest attachment on the official IBF page. Check revision/effective dates, coordinates, port coverage and extensions. An old downloaded PDF may have expired. This site does not pretend to update boundaries or bonuses automatically.
Reference: ITF Seafarers — IBF Warlike and High Risk Areas ↗3 · Designation classes differ
Warlike Operations, High-Risk and Extended Risk do not carry identical information, refusal/repatriation, bonus or compensation conditions. Confirm the current annex and ship CBA with authorised company/crewing and union contacts.
Reference: ITF Seafarers — Risk designations and entitlements ↗4 · Link crew process and security assessment
Track entry/exit time/position, notification date and crew requests through controlled records. An IBF check does not replace SSP/voyage risk assessment. Do not publish crew lists or agreements on public pages.
Reference: ITF Seafarers — IBF Warlike and High Risk Areas ↗Scenarios and self-check
Onboard scenarios
I have the January PDF.
Check the latest issue/extensions before treating it as current.
The area is not IBF-designated: is it safe?
That does not follow. Operational threat assessment and other requirements remain separate.
LEARNING CHECK
Think of your answer, then reveal the explanation
Do all classes have identical entitlements?
No. Class, validity and CBA terms matter.
Does one vessel’s bonus rate apply to every ship?
No. Check the agreement and current designation annex.
Self-assessment only; no exam result, personnel record or competence certificate is generated.
Open official sources
Open the official sources
ITF Seafarers — IBF Warlike and High Risk Areas
Current IBF designation publication
Open source ↗WWW.ITFSEAFARERS.ORGITF Seafarers — Risk designations and entitlements
Union guidance; applicability depends on agreement
Open source ↗Legal instruments, explanatory guidance and operational bulletins have different roles. Check later amendments and consolidated texts where needed. Access and external documents remain under the publisher’s control.
Learning diagram and scope notes
Rules and bulletins may change. Before operation or voyage, verify the latest official source and ship-specific applicability. This page is not permission, certification or a real-time risk notice.