All news: seafarer

COVID-19

Joint IMO/ILO statement on upholding medical assistance obligations to seafarers and accelerating seafarer vaccination programmes

The heads of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) have issued a joint statement calling for port and coastal States to allow seafarers to receive medical care.

International Labour Standards

Antigua and Barbuda ratifies nine ILO instruments

Skills development

ILO, UK and Indonesia team up to build highly skilled and globally competitive maritime workforce

New partnerships will have a critical bearing on Indonesia’s maritime industry, says coordinating minister for maritime affairs and investment.

Maritime Labour Convention, 2006

Ukraine on the way to join ILO’s Seafarer’s Bill of Rights

Ukraine is among the top four countries supplying maritime workers on ships around the globe. Last week, the Ukrainian government made an important step towards ratifying the ILO flagship Convention guaranteeing minimum working standards for all...

Navigating a steady lifeline between communities

Cindy Alsop– Captain, Lake Champlain Ferry, Grand Isle, VT

Maritime Labour Convention

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

Mozambique became the 98th Member State of the ILO to ratify the Convention.

Convention No. 184 and Convention No. 185

Iraq ratifies agriculture and seafarers Conventions

Fourth Meeting of the Special Tripartite Committee of the Maritime Labour Convention

The ILO calls for full respect of seafarers’ rights and for the vaccination of seafarers

Seafarers need COVID-19 vaccinations, wherever they are, to avoid delays and disruption in supply chains.

COVID-19 and maritime and air transport

Seafarers and aircrew need priority COVID-19 vaccination

UN organizations issue joint call for seafarers and aircrew to be prioritized for COVID-19 vaccination.

Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR)

Q&A with Corinne Vargha on the launch of the 2021 CEACR Report

The Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) is one of the key elements of the ILO’s supervisory system for International Labour Standards. It is an independent body composed of 20 high-level legal experts,...

MLC, 2006, as amended

Enhanced protection for seafarers affected by acts of piracy and armed robbery against ships

Joint Statement on prioritization of COVID-19 vaccination for seafarers and aircrew (25 March 2021)

Statement of the Officers of the STC on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) regarding increased collaboration between shipowners and...

Special Tripartite Committee of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended

Maritime Labour Convention

ILO Governing Body calls for urgent action on seafarer COVID-19 crisis

Its resolution addresses the plight of hundreds of thousands of seafarers who have been trapped at sea for as many as 17 months or longer because of pandemic restrictions.

New Statement of the Officers of the STC on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) - 1 October 2020

Special Tripartite Committee of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended

COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace

Stranded seafarers: A “humanitarian crisis”

ILO and other UN bodies want member States to take urgent action to help hundreds of thousands of seafarers left stranded by COVID-19 restrictions.

Joint Statement by UN agencies calling on all Governments to immediately recognize seafarers as key workers, and to take swift and...

Statement by the International Labour Office (ILO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Global Compact, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the International Organization for Migration, the Office of the...

COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace

ILO welcomes Singapore port’s new measures to help seafarers and ease crew rotations

Singapore has brought in new measures to facilitate the safe rotation of crews at its port, while protecting ships and the local community.

COVID-19

‘My children ask me when am I coming home’: stranded seafarers share their frustrations

COVID-19 and the maritime sector

ILO welcomes COVID-19 seafarers’ rights agreement

With hundreds of thousands of seafarers stranded at sea due to the pandemic, a new international agreement recognizes them as key workers who should be protected.