Tag: Code of Conduct

The Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) and the Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI), published "The Delivering on Seafarers’ Rights 2023 Progress Report", which presents how the situation has changed in the past twelve months and how the Code of Conduct has assisted companies in their due diligence work.

The Sustainable Shipping Initiative published the "Delivering on Seafarers’ Rights progress" report, reflecting on the twelve months since the launch of the Code of Conduct and self-assessment questionnaire in October 2021.

Francesca Fairbairn and Andrew Stephens make their assessment after one year of the Code of Conduct implementation, an initiative launched by the Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI), the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB), and the Rafto Foundation with the aim to address seafarers’ rights and welfare.

Following the launch of seafarers’ rights and welfare Code of Conduct, AMSA expressed its support for the initiative.

Prevention of piracy, armed robbery against ships and illicit maritime activity in west and central Africa was on the agenda at a meeting of the G7 Group of Friends of the Gulf of Guinea in Lagos, Nigeria, on 11-12 December.

IMO informed that it took a major role in an exercise, evaluating the success of code of conduct dealing with maritime crime in west and central Africa, in 16-17 August. The Yaoundé Code of Conduct was signed in 2013 by 25 west and central African countries, aiming to address matters such as piracy and illegal fishing.

A Tool for Masters and Officers when interpreting the Code of Conduct for the Merchant Navy

Japan gives one million dollar boost to Gulf of Guinea fund

Adopted at Ministerial meeting IMO has pledged its support to assist in the implementation of a new Code of Conduct concerning the prevention and repression of piracy, armed robbery against ships and illicit maritime activity in west and central Africa, which has been adopted at a Ministerial meeting in Cotonou, Benin.The Code is expected to be opened for signature at the meeting of the Heads of State and Government of Central and West African States, expected to be held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, in May 2013. Welcoming the adoption of the Code, IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu said that IMO was ready to support the countries in the region in its implementation."IMO has been working for a number of years with international development partners on a number of activities aimed at enhancing the ability of individual States in the region, and the wider sub-region, to build a sustainable maritime capacity and we look forward to continuing to work with them to support the implementation of this Code and to work together to repress piracy, armed robbery against ships and other illicit maritime activity off the coasts of west and central Africa," Mr. Sekimizu said. "We look forward to continuing to work with ...

A code of conduct would help ease tensions in the area The United States on Tuesday renewed its call for the crafting of a legally-binding code of conduct in the disputed West Philippine Sea (also called South China Sea) amid the ongoing naval standoff between the Philippines and China at the Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal.Joseph Yousang Yun, State Department Principal Deputy Assistant on Security for East Asia and the Pacific, said this was conveyed by the US to senior officials of Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Manila as both sides discussed wide-raging bilateral and regional issues that included maritime security and the West Philippine Sea.A code of conduct among Asian nations with overlapping claims to the resource-rich sea, Yun said, would help ease tensions in the area."As far as the US is concerned, we stated that we very much look forward to ASEAN and China working on the code of conduct which I think will be helpful for everyone," Yun, Washington's representative to the 25th ASEAN-US Dialogue, told reporters.Yun said the impasse between the Philippines and China at Panatag Shoal was not discussed in the meeting but noted that both sides hoped for a peaceful resolution to any ...