Outlawing Ransom Payment Jeopardizes Seafarers
Maritime trade union Nautilus has written to UK Shipping Minister John Hayes to express concerns over the potential ...
read more →Global Shipping Going Digital
United Nations’ International Maritime Organization (IMO) has launched a number of initiatives for eliminating ...
read more →EU to Include Seafarers in Its Legislation
The EU’s Council of Employment and Social Policy Ministers reached an agreement Wednesday, December 1o on the ...
read more →Seafarers UK Backs Missing Seafarers Reporting Programme
Seafarers UK has granted financial support for the development of an international register of missing seafarers, ...
read more →Seafarers Largely Unprotected from Infectious Diseases
Estimating the threat from infectious diseases in seafarers and identifying occupational infectious diseases ...
read more →Seafarers Arriving from West Africa Denied Medical Care
United Nations and other leading international transport, trade and tourism organizations expressed concern about ...
read more →Crew Members of Hijacked MV Asphalt Venture Freed
Seven Indian seafarers who have been held hostage since their ship, the MV Asphalt Venture, was hijacked in the ...
read more →New Guidelines to Protect Health and Safety of Seafarers
The ‘Meeting of Experts on Maritime Occupational Safety and Health’ held in Geneva, October ...
read more →ECSA, ETF Tackling EU Labour Law Loopholes
European Community Shipowners’ Association (ECSA) and European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) have ...
read more →UPDATE: Notorious Vega Auriga Detained in Tauranga
Container ship Vega Auriga, banned by Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) from using or entering any ...
read more →Stranded Seafarers’ Nightmare Finally Over
The long ordeal faced by groups of stranded crew supported by seafarers’ charity Apostleship of the Sea (AoS) has ...
read more →Port Hedland Deckhands Back Industrial Action
Deckhands in Port Hedland have voted to take industrial action, after failing to negotiate a new Enterprise ...
read more →Half of Seafarers Unable to Keep in Touch with Their ...
A recent survey shows that up to half of seafarers don’t have reasonable access to communication in order to ...
read more →KVH Incorporates Videotel
KVH Industries, Inc., has acquired Videotel, a provider of maritime training services, video, animation, e-Learning ...
read more →Australian Seafarers Threatened by Foreign Workers
The Australian Shipowners Association (ASA) has urged the Abbott Government to be careful in its consideration of ...
read more →ILO Paves Way for Greater Seafarer Protection
At the 103rd International Labour Conference, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has, with a staggering ...
read more →Carrier Profitability in Danger of Imminent Seafarer Shortage
The current shortage of officer corps seafarers is forecast to worsen and risks impacting carrier profitability, ...
read more →ITF, JNG Shake on 3 Year IBF Framework Agreement
The International Transport Workers’ Federation ITF and Joint Negotiating Group JNG have met in Indonesia to ...
read more →‘The Mission to Seafarers’ Helps Sewol ...
The Mission to Seafarers chaplain in Pusan South Korea, The Revd Simon Ro, has described his work in recent weeks ...
read more →EU States Reject Ban on Filipino Seafarers
At the Committee on the Safety of the Sea (COSS) held on 23 April, the EU Member States endorsed the recommendation ...
read more →MLC Proposes Safety Nets for Abandoned Seafarers
Now, seafarers will be better protected as a consequence of two amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention. ...
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