Deirdre Fitzpatrick, Executive Director of SRI attended the first meeting of the newly created Tripartite Working group, which met between 13 to 15 December 2022 to discuss and adopt guidelines for ...
First Meeting of the Joint ILO-IMO Tripartite Working Group to identify and address seafarers’ issues and the human element, 13 – 15 December 2022
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 ...
The Wu Zhou 8 – Time For The Industry To Focus On Its Responsibilities
In the aftermath of what might be the worst ever case of multiple fatalities from suspected mass food poisoning of the crew of the bulk carrier Wu Zhou 8, resulting in 13 crew deaths and eight crew ...
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 ...
SRI Shares Expertise with the Legal Community
On 14-15 September 2022, Deirdre Fitzpatrick, Executive Director of SRI, joined key experts from international organisations, universities, the legal profession and the maritime industry to speak at ...
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 ...
June 2022: SRI and the government of the Philippines sign a Memorandum of Agreement
The drive to protect the rights and welfare of seafarers around the world turns on international cooperation, and on 1 June 2022 SRI and the government of the Philippines took an important ...
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