Seafarers’ Bulletin 2020
Seafarers' Bulletin 2020 SB2020 English_1 https://asiamanpower.vn/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SB2020-English_1.pdf
23Jul
23Jul
Maritime Labour Convention
The International Labour Organization's Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006 - also known as the Seafarers’ Bill of Rights – sets out the minimum rights that you should expect as a seafarer What is the Maritime Labour Convention? The International Labour Organization's Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006 - also known as the Seafarers’ Bill of Rights – sets out the minimum rights that you should expect as a seafarer. Every ship over 500 gross tonnage operating in international waters or between ports of different countries has to have a maritime labour...
23Jul
IMO endorses guidance on ensuring seafarers’ access to medical care onshore
A significant step has been made to protect seafarers’ health and safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim’s endorsement of a series of recommendations designed to ensure seafarers can access medical care ashore quickly and safely. Receiving medical care ashore can be a matter of life or death for seafarers who fall ill while working on ships. But since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been cases of seafarers being denied permission to go ashore, even...
20Jul
300,000 Seafarers Trapped at Sea: Mounting crew change crisis demands faster action from governments
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) estimates that there are now approximately 300,000 seafarers trapped working aboard ships due to the crew change crisis caused by government Covid-19 border and travel restrictions, and an equal number of unemployed seafarers waiting to join them who are ashore. That makes 600,000 seafarers affected by this crisis. Today marks one month since the ITF told the world’s governments that ‘Enough is Enough’ and that the federation and its affiliates would be assisting the...