Section 6(1) in The Merchant Shipping (Recruitment and Placement of Seafarers) Rules, 2016
(1)The recruitment and placement service shall, for promoting the welfare of seafarers, pay to the Seafarers Welfare Fund Society, Mumbai, a welfare fund contribution of rupees six thousand per seafarer per annum, for every seafarer excluding trainees, engaged on board foreign flag ships, on the basis of the actual period of the seafarers employed.
