Brunei to join Maritime Labour Convention
Enforced worldwide Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006, a comprehensive convention that contains all aspects that outline the working conditions and proper area to live for seafarers, may come into force as early as end of 2012.For Brunei Darussalam, it would be very important to implement the convention because it will be enforced worldwide.In addition, MLC 2006 requires all countries to enforce the requirement on all commercial ships that Brunei to join Maritime enter ports and this involve BLNG vessels registered underBrunei Darussalam that travel between Brunei and Japan.To better understand the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006 and to fulfill the requirement of MLC 2006 in terms of implementation, a briefing was held by the Marine Department at the Ministry of Communications yesterday.The Director of Marine Department, Hj Omar bin Hj Sirat, in a speech said, "Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006 was established to give full protection to more than 1.2 million seafarers around the world.The aim of the convention is to introduce the appropriateness in the career of seafarers and maintain the economic importance in balanced competitiveness for all quality ship owners "It was estimated that 90 per cent of world trade is transported on ships which shows that seafarers ...
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