{"id":2692,"date":"2026-08-17T13:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indosearch.in\/learn\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:53:31","slug":"safe-manning-for-high-speed-crafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indosearch.in\/learn\/safe-manning-for-high-speed-crafts\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Minimum Safe Manning Scale for High-Speed Crafts in India?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Minimum safe manning for high-speed crafts in India<\/strong> comes from Annexure G-7 of DGMA Circular No. 54 of 2025, and it stands apart from every other scale in the circular in one important way: it is not banded by Gross Tonnage at all. A single fixed crew of 5 nautical seafarers covers every Category A high-speed craft operating at Port Blair and in the Indian offshore region up to the Exclusive Economic Zone, regardless of how large or small the craft actually is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you operate a fast ferry, a catamaran, or any other Category A high-speed craft on that route, Annexure G-7 is the table that decides its Minimum Safe Manning Document (MSMD), and it works nothing like the Gross Tonnage tables covering every other vessel type in this circular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This guide closes out our series on minimum safe manning requirements for Indian flag vessels<\/a>, which maps every annexure in DGMA Circular No. 54 of 2025, and it is also the final annexure in the circular itself. It follows our guide to Annexure G-6 for Type 4 River-Sea passenger vessels<\/a>, and unlike every guide before it in this series, there is no gross tonnage table to walk through here, since Annexure G-7 sets one crew for the whole craft category instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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