Tag: seafarers welfare

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Rio Tinto have agreed to the Designated Owners & Operators (DOO) programme, a Rio Tinto initiative targeted to enhance safety and improve crew welfare in the dry bulk industry.

The International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN) has shared insights into the issues faced by seafarers and their families in 2022 with a new infographic of data from its helplines.

The Mission to Seafarers and Deutsche Seemannsmission have launched a new partnership to improve welfare services for seafarers in Panama.

Merchant Navy Welfare Board welcomes the UK Government on the fact that The Seafarers’ Wages Act received Royal Assent and is now law.

Up to a thousand ships flagged to the Cook Islands, Palau, Sierra Leone, and Togo will be targeted for safety, maintenance and seafarer welfare inspections across the Mediterranean Sea in the coming eight weeks by an army of inspectors from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), seafarers’ unions and port authorities.

Mr. Andrew Roberts, Executive Director, EMEA, RightShip, highlights the importance of data sharing and increased transparency for enhance safety culture, both onboard and ashore. Data sharing also helps organization to choose the proper decarbonization initiatives and they can be held accountable for cases of crew abandonment.

David Hammond, Human Rights at Sea, CEO, and Professor Steven Haines, University of Greenwich and Honorary Trustee, recently joined the Operational Maritime Law podcast to discuss the protection of human rights at sea, focusing on what can be done about the plight of abandoned seafarers.

In an exclusive interview to SAFETY4SEA, AMSA ‘s CEO, Mick Kinley urges for radical changes in the maritime industry with a focus on safe workplaces, decent working & living conditions and closing the gap in reported fatality data.

The Mission to Seafarers has launched its new Flying Angel Campaign 2023 with the goal of raising US$700,000 (£600,000) to respond to the changing needs of seafarers’ welfare.

MPA Singapore informed that the Maritime Welfare Fee (MWF) concession will be extended for a further two years and cease thereafter.