A new Action Plan, launched at COP 27 by UN organizations, shipowners and unions, sets out recommendations to upskill seafarers to meet shipping’s decarbonisation goals. The plan is in response to ...
COP27: Shipping decarbonisation action plan launched to upskill global seafaring workforce
Keep seafarers in mind when developing shipping technology
Captain Kuba Szymanski, SRI Advisory Board member and InterManager Secretary General, has reminded the industry that seafarers should come first when developing new technology. Speaking to ...
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 ...
IMO speaks out on predicted record number of seafarer abandonments in 2022
Dr Heike Deggim, Director of IMO's Maritime Safety Division, speaking at the MPA Singapore's Safety @ Sea week said yesterday that 74 cases of seafarer abandonment had been reported to the IMO/ILO so ...
New report aims to understand seafarer suicide and its potential under-reporting
A new report commissioned by the UK Government discusses the mental health of seafarers and the impacts of suicide, the support available and the potential under-reporting of suicides in the sector in ...
World Celebrates Day of the Seafarer
The world celebrated Day of the Seafarer on Saturday 25 June, with a collective mix of memories and tales of life at sea. For 2022, the campaign of the Day of the Seafarer, with the theme 'Your ...
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 ...
Global shipowner group and seafarers’ unions agree new three-year global minimum wage ‘safety net’ deal
The UN International Labour Organization (ILO) once again convened the latest bipartite round of negotiations between shipowners and seafarers’ unions from across the world, coordinated by the ...
Seafarers win commitment to mandatory internet access in international law
Seafarers’ groups have won the right to mandatory social connectivity for crews –including internet access – in updates to the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC). The latest Special Tripartite ...
Taskforce for Fair Green Transition Adds Strength
The Maritime Just Transition Task Force has announced that the Singapore Maritime Foundation has become its first public programme partner. The announcement was made at an event during Singapore ...
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