Lloyds List 4 April 2013: The Maritime Labour Convention fails to address abandoned seafarers and a legal solution must be found that gives crewdirect access to compensation, Seafarers’ ...
Maritime Labour Convention leaves abandoned seafarers high and dry
IMO Legal Committee, 99th session
SAFETY4SEA, 23 April 2012. IMO Legal Committe, 99th session. SRI made an intervention at the 99th session IMO Legal Committee on the subject of fair treatment of seafarers in the event of a ...
IMO Tackles Serious Crimes on Ships
THE 100th session of the International Maritime Organization legal committee has approved new guidelines on collecting evidence following allegations of a serious crime on board a ship. The ...
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 ...
Left high and dry
Port Strategy January/February 2012 Left high and dry, abandoned seafarers face some appalling realities. How do – or how should – ports respond? 20120306. Port Strategy.pdf (932.09 kB) ...
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 ...