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The current shortage of officer corps seafarers is forecast to worsen and risks impacting carrier profitability, according to Drewry's Manning 2014 Annual Report

New Facilities For Cruise Ship Crews in Three Major Ports

ISWAN, together with the International Transport Workers Federation, International Maritime Health Association and Seamens Hospital Society is carrying out a small pilot study which aims to gain a better understanding of women seafarers' health needs.

The current shortage of officer corps seafarers is forecast to worsen and risks impacting carrier profitability according to Drewry's recently published Manning 2014 Annual Report

Seafarers working on ships owned by members of the International Bargaining Forum's (IBF) Joint Negotiating Group (JNG) will receive a 6.5 percent pay increase over the next three years, was announced

The ITF and its affiliated unions are launching a week of action from ports on the Black Sea to combat crew abuse and unseaworthy vessels

First meeting of the Special Tripartite Committee Governments, maritime employer representatives co-ordinated by the International Shipping Federation (ISF) and their counterparts from the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) met this week at the International Labour Organization in Geneva for the first meeting of the Special Tripartite Committee (STC) established under the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006).During the meeting agreement was reached for amendments to the Convention to ensure the provision of financial security systems to assist seafarers in the event of their abandonment and for compensation for seafarers' contractual claims for death and personal injury.ISF spokesperson Arthur Bowring, who led the Shipowner Group in the discussions, stated "We believe that the first meeting of the MLC Special Tripartite Committee has been a watershed in the history of the Maritime Labour Convention. The MLC, 2006 is intended to bring social justice and fair competition to the Shipping Industry and the lack of a specific reference to abandonment in the mandatory instruments of ILO and IMO was an omission that needed comprehensive action. The first Special Tripartite Committee considered amendments developed over ten years by the Joint ILO and IMO working group and we believe that the outcome of our work ...

IMO and other parties contribute to empower women in the maritime industry Shipping has historically been a male-dominated industry and that tradition runs long and deep. However, through its global programme on the Integration of Women in the Maritime Sector, IMO is making a concerted effort to help the industry move on from that tradition and to help women achieve a representation within it that is more in keeping with twenty-first century expectations.Last year, IMO launched film "Women at the helm", showing how the work of IMO, and others has begun to promote change for the better for women in shipping, and highlightinh first-hand experiences from some of those who have already succeeded.IMO staff member Captain Beatrice Vormawah, Head, Technical Cooperation Implementation Co-ordination Section, Maritime Safety Division, has no regrets about her earlier career at sea in a "man's world". Listen to IMO podcast for more.Accordinf to the ITF, women make up only an estimated 2% of the world's maritime workforce. Women seafarers work mainly in the cruise and ferries sector, often for Flags of Convenience (FOC) vessels. These are among the worst paid and least protected of jobs at sea. Women also tend to be younger, and fewer are ...

ITF, JNG met in Tokyo between 19-20 February 2014 to continue discussions aimed at a new IBF Framework TCC (Total Crew Cost) Agreement

Dockers and Seafarers unions in Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia and Myanmar inspected a total of 34 merchant vessels flying flags of convenience (FOC), as ITF Unions concluded the South East Asian Week of Action from 13-17 January.