Global leaders from organisations representing seafarers, shipowners and other maritime employers signed a memorandum of understanding with the Philippines’s Department of Migrant Workers on Wednesday ...
New advisory committee formally launched to address major maritime issues impacting Filipino seafarers
Qatar focuses on MLC
Doha: The Ministry of Labour organised an awareness and training seminar on the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), in cooperation with the Ministry of Transportation, the International Labour ...
Record all enclosed space deaths urges SRI Advisory Board Member Kuba Szymanski, as two more workers die
As two more workers die in an enclosed space on board a ship, InterManager has hit out at the shipping industry’s inadequate reporting of serious and fatal accidents. Captain Kuba Szymanski, SRI ...
New Code of Conduct and Self Assessment Tool Launched
A new Code of Conduct and self-assessment tool developed to protect the human rights and welfare of the world’s nearly two million seafarers has been launched. The initiative aims to support a safe, ...
InterManager Survey Reveals Widespread Concern at Enclosed Space Deaths
"Seafarers and dock workers are still dying while working in enclosed spaces on board vessels because there is not enough understanding throughout the shipping industry of the risks faced by today’s ...
New guidance on arrested and detained vessels and abandoned seafarers
New guidance is now available to assist welfare organisations dealing with incidents of seafarers being abandoned and vessels being arrested or detained. The booklet, entitled Arrested and Detained ...
MLC abandonment provisions coming into force: ITF comment
The ITF (International Transport Workers is giving a warm welcome to the major new Maritime Labour Convention provisions on crew abandonment that come into force tomorrow. ITF president Paddy Crumlin ...
Amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention ensure better protection to seafarers and their families
ILO member States have confirmed the amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention ensuring better protection to seafarers and their families in case of abandonment, death, and long-term ...
China ferry disaster: 431 confirmed dead
The death toll from the passenger ship that capsized on the Yangtze River has climbed to 431 as of 11:00hrs on 7 June, according to data released by the authorities. Only 14 survivors have been found ...
Over 2,000 Migrants Rescued in Med
By MarEx 2015-06-07 17:11:46 This weekend the Migrant Offshore Aid Station was involved in the rescue of more than 2,000 people from five separate migrant boats with the assistance of navy vessels ...
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