Lloyds List 19 June 2013 Impetus for reform is building as UN body seeks to better serve industry’s needs WHEN Birgit Liodden, secretary-general of Youngship International, played a rap song at last ...
New model IMO seeks to adapt to shipping’s changing environment
Costa probe blames the human element
IMO to meet this month to consider recommendations from inquiry into Italian disaster The long-awaited official Italian report on the investigation into the Costa Concordia disaster last year has ...
Been there, done that… a recipe for success?
A debate is raging about the future of the superintendent’s role — much of it focusing on the thorny question of whether superintendents need to have been to sea or sailed in the highest ranks to do ...
IMO seeks public input on administrative burdens
Today marks the start of a six-month consultation period in which the International Maritime Organization (IMO) will seek widespread input on the administrative burdens that may result from compliance ...
Job swindles exposed
Nautilus and the Chamber of Shipping are working together to highlight growing concerns over ‘scam’ employment agencies seeking to defraud seafarers with offers of work. The past year has seen a ...
Seafarers fail to heed enclosed space advice
Seafarers are continuing to be killed in enclosed spaces onboard ships despite the campaigns to cut the death toll, a P&I club has warned. The UK Club has issued a special bulletin in response to ...
Ballast sampling trials are agreed
Union warns of criminalisation risks posed by unreliable equipment Nautilus has voiced alarm at the potential for ship masters and officers to face new criminal penalties when the international ...
Alarm as five die in lifeboat drill accident
Nautilus has expressed concern over an incident in which five seafarers died during a lifeboat drill onboard the cruiseship Thomson Majesty in the port of Santa Cruz de la Palma in the Canary ...
Call to halve sea deaths
IMO leader says ‘astronomical’ fatality rate must be cut. Nautilus has backed a call from the International Maritime Organisation’s leader for the seafarer death rate to be halved over the next two ...
Honorary Award for MLC ‘Mother’
Nautilus Council members have agreed to award honorary membership of the Union to one of the key architects of the international Maritime Labour Convention, Dr Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry. General ...