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HIV/AIDS education for maritime students

Ukrainian trade unions and ILO join forces to introduce HIV/AIDS prevention training for seafarers

The Maritime Transport Workers’ Trade Union of Ukraine (MTWTU) in collaboration with the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has facilitated an HIV/AIDS prevention module in the Kherson State Maritime Academy (KSMA), being the first...

Shipbuilding and repair

ILO Meeting of Experts adopts a new Code of Practice to improve safety and health in shipbuilding and ship repair

Some 1.9 million workers around the globe will benefit from a revised code of practice which takes account of dramatic changes in the industry by incorporating a systematic and preventative approach to safety and health management.

Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention

Myanmar strengthens efforts to protect seafarers’ rights

Myanmar becomes the 35th ILO member State to ratify Convention C185.

Opening of Stella Maris Seafarer’s Center in Samaesarn, 23 June 2017

Seafarers’ identity documents

The Seafarers’ Identity Document: Moving to an e-SID compatible with ICAO Doc 9303

Article by John Campbell, Technical Advisor to the ILO, published in the Keesing Journal of Documents & Identity in June 2017

United Republic of Tanzania ratifies ILO Maritime Labour (2006) and Seafarers identity documents No. 185 (2003) conventions

Becomes the 5th and 13th country in Africa to ratify seafarer’s identity documents and Maritime Labour conventions respectively

Labour Standards

Jamaica renews commitment toward International Labour Standards

Jamaica ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006) and the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930

Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

Indonesia ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

Indonesia, an important actor of international maritime trade, is the 83rd Member State of the ILO that ratifies this convention.

Seafarers’ identity documents

Seafarers’ identity documents: New requirements enter into force triggering renewed momentum for the ratification of Convention No. 185

Tanzania considers ratification of two ILO Maritime Conventions

Government, ship-owners, representatives of seafarers and ILO have been consulted by the Parliamentary Legal and Constitutional Affairs committee on the gains of the process

Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

Tunisia ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

Tunisia, an important actor of international maritime trade, is the 82nd Member State of the ILO that ratifies this convention

Maritime Labour Convention

Seafarers and their families now ensured of protection in cases of abandonment, death, and long-term disability

Foreign ships entering the ports of States for which the ILO’s Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 is in force will be inspected for compliance by port State control authorities.

Maritime Labour Convention

Sri Lanka ratifies the ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

Sri Lanka is the 81st ILO member State and the 16th Asian State to have ratified the Convention

Maritime Labour Convention

Albania ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

On 28th of October 2016, the Government of Albania deposited with the International Labour Office (ILO) the instrument of ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006).

Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188)

Entry into force of the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188), imminent following ratification by Angola

On 11 October 2016, the Government of the Republic of Angola deposited with the International Labour Office (ILO) the instrument of ratification of the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188).

Maritime Labour Convention

Seafarers and their families ensured of protection in cases of abandonment, death, and long-term disability

ILO member States have confirmed the amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention ensuring better protection to seafarers and their families in case of abandonment, death, and long-term disability.

Maritime Labour Convention

Algeria ratifies the ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

Algeria is the 79th Member State to have ratified this landmark Convention.

Maritime Labour Convention

Portugal ratifies the ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

Portugal is the 78th Member State to have ratified this landmark Convention.

Overwhelming ILO support for the protection against harassment and bullying onboard ships, improved procedures concerning the maritime...

105th International Labour Conference

ILO Director-General: “ILO sets course to promote decent work in global supply chains, in transition from conflict and crisis and in making...

World parliament of labour sets the course for global action to shape the future of work.