Tag: abandonment of seafarers

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has welcomed the implementation of new obligations under the MLC 2006 which require shipowners to have compulsory insurance to cover abandonment of seafarers, as well as claims for death or long-term disability of seafarers.

Amendments to the MLC 2006, which ensure better protection to seafarers and their families in case of abandonment, death and long-term disability, entered into force on 18 January 2017. From today, 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.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation has welcomed the new Maritime Labour Convention provisions on crew abandonment that are due to be implemented on January 18.

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.

Apostleship of the Sea (AoS) in Poland stepped in to assist 59 abandoned Russian seafarers who were left in the lurch after the ship owner went bankrupt.

SRI has released a short hard-hitting film designed to raise awareness of the ever present risk of seafarers facing abandonment. Drawing on situations where seafarers were abandoned, the film highlights the inhumane conditions that abandoned seafarers face, and warns seafarers how to avoid being abandoned as well as what they can do if they are abandoned.

Will the new requirements bring to an end seafarers being abandoned by shipowners?

The NGO Shipbreaking Platform welcomed the international initiative Human Rights at Sea (HRAS) as a new partner organisation

The Mission to Seafarers (MtS) Sea Sunday campaign kicks off on 13 July in hundreds of churches around the world, highlighting the tragic plight of abandoned seafarers suffering in ports