Resources on Shipping, ports, fisheries, and inland waterways sector

  1. Safety and health in ports (Revised 2016)

    20 August 2018

    The text revises and updates the 2005 edition of: ILO code of practice safety and health in ports, which had replaced two former ILO publications: Guide to safety and health in dock work (1976) and Safety and health in dock work, An ILO code of practice (second edition, 1977).

  2. The flexibility clauses of the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188)

    26 February 2018

    This sectoral working paper discusses the various types of flexibility clauses found in the Work in Fishing convention, 2007 (No. 188), with a view to assisting those considering making use of these clauses when ratifying and implementing the Convention. Working papers are preliminary documents circulated to stimulate discussion and obtain comments.

  3. Detailed procedure on the joint IMO/ILO database management

    20 December 2017

  4. Intervention by ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder on « sustainable fisheries »

    09 October 2017

    Intervention by ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder on Sustainable Fisheries at "Our Ocean" conference, which was held in Malta, on 6 October 2017.

  5. Tripartite Meeting on issues relating to Migrant Fishers

  6. Form to be used when reporting information on cases of abandonment

    04 October 2016

  7. Meeting of Experts to Adopt a Revised Code of Practice on Safety and Health in Ports

  8. Workers’ Symposium on Decent Work in Global Supply Chains

    Trade union representatives, senior ILO officials and experts from Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Arab regions will attend the symposium to discuss and agree on how best to promote Decent work in the Global Supply Chains.

  9. Proposal for Guidelines on flag State inspection of working and living conditions on board fishing vessels

    28 January 2015

  10. Decent work for seafarers: Programme fact sheet

    27 November 2014

    The Philippines ranks as the top supplier of seafarers in the world, particularly ratings. In 2006, the maritime constituents of the ILO adopted the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006). The lack of standard laws, contracts, and collective bargaining agreements tend to be the main source of protection for seafarers but organized seafarers only cover 17-20 per cent of the maritime labour force since they are regularly contract workers.