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English translation: the time crew members report for duty when hired to perform seasonal work on a vessel

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English term or phrase:	on-signing period
English translation:	the time crew members report for duty when hired to perform seasonal work on a vessel
Entered by:	Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun

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10:10 Jun 14, 2010

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English term or phrase: on-signing period

Possession, use or distribution of alcoholic beverages for employee's when on on-signing period of the vessel is prohibited.

What does "on-signing" mean in this case. The period the employee is in the vessel?

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Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun KudoZ activity Questions: 293 (4 open) (6 without valid answers) (24 closed without grading) Answers: 11232 Norway
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the time crew members report for duty when hired to perform seasonal work on a vessel

Explanation:
Onsigning in other words means reporting for duty when hired to perform seasonal work on a vessel. The opposite of onsigning is offsigning. A few examples of usage:

"Seminars are held prior to deployment for all onsigning seafarers so that they are properly briefed about their assigned vessel."

"Familiarization training given to onsigning crew on joining"

"The helicopter landed safely on the helideck and onsigning crew disembarked"

"can make all necessary travelling arrangements for onsigning and offsigning crew members at very competitive prices"

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Ildiko Santana
United States
Local time: 18:09

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the time crew members report for duty when hired to perform seasonal work on a vessel

Ildiko Santana

during their sign-on period

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during their sign-on period

Explanation:
During their employment period on the vessel.
Possession, use or distribution of alcoholic beverages by employees during their sign-on period is prohibited.

Sangro
Local time: 04:09
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Romanian

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the time crew members report for duty when hired to perform seasonal work on a vessel

Ildiko Santana
United States
Local time: 18:09
Works in field
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Hungarian,

English
PRO pts in category: 3

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