Tag: Japan

New Customs Regulation for Japan

Stephanie Wilson, Platts Asia LNG managing editor, and Javier Diaz, BENTEK Energy senior energy analyst, discuss the availability of LNG supples to the Japanese market and the change in strategy among utility buyers as winter approaches.

India, Japan to strengthen cooperation in shipping

Ships collided off Tokyo, six crew members missing: Eifuku Maru crashed with Jia Hui

Panama Canal Discusses Expansion Program Progress: tolls, expansion discussions with car carrier segment

Japan is the 40th ILO Member State to have its ratification registered The Government of Japan registered its ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006) with the International Labour Office on 5 August.With the ratification by Japan, ILO Member States representing 70.7 per cent of the world's global shipping tonnage and more than 50 percent of the world's estimated 1.2 million seafarers have now committed themselves to the decent work standards of the Convention, which comes into force on 20 August. Japan is the 40th ILO Member State to have its ratification registered and the 10th from the Asia-Pacific region - after Singapore, Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau, Philippines, Tuvalu and Viet Nam - to have ratified the international agreement.The new Convention will be the "fourth pillar" of the international legal regime complementing key Conventions of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), setting international standards for training and certification of seafarers, ship safety and security, and the prevention of ship source pollution. When the MLC, 2006 enters into force on August 20, 2013, ensuring decent working and living conditions for seafarers will become a key indicator of a quality ship owner.Japan played a key leadership role in the ...

Six bodies found after fire on ship in Japan

Dryad Maritimes welcomes Japanese plans to allow armed guards

NYK Celebrates Japan s 1st Environmentally-Friendly Tugboat

ClassNK approves first application of duplex stainless steel on vessels in Japan