This year, once again, the annual Day of the Seafarer (DotS) will be celebrated on 25 June. For 2023, the campaign will look at seafarers' contribution to protecting the marine environment, in line ...
Day of the Seafarer 2023 – seafarers, MARPOL and the marine environment
Commission continues to recognise Filipino seafarer’s certificates
The European Commission has made the decision to continue recognising certificates for seafarers issued by the Philippines, one of the world’s largest maritime labour supply countries. In December ...
Proportion of women in maritime technical and marine roles ‘stagnant’
Maritime HR firm Spinnaker’s most recent salary survey based on full year 2022 figures shows that technical roles in the maritime sector quickly move away from relative equality at a trainee level to ...
New advisory committee formally launched to address major maritime issues impacting Filipino seafarers
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 ...
Joint ILO-IMO meeting adopts guidelines on seafarer abandonment
New measures to improve conditions for seafarers, including those who have been abandoned, have been adopted at a meeting involving governments and maritime workers and employers’ ...
‘When it matters, shipping speaks as one’: industry-union pact to keep pandemic cooperative spirit alive
Unions representing seafarers and maritime employer groups have come together to sign a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) to take forward the ‘spirit of cooperation’ that marked the shipping ...
COP27: Shipping decarbonisation action plan launched to upskill global seafaring workforce
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 ...
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 ...
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