With Russia and the Philippines ratifying it, the required 30 ILO member countries have done so. It will take effect a year from now. The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 soon will be in force as the ...

The sinking of the Iranian warship IRIS Dena, which killed at least 80 sailors, has widened the US-Israel-Iran conflict beyond West Asia and brought maritime conventions into the spotlight. What are ...

In recent years, TV audiences around the world have grown used to the images of men, women and children crammed on rusty, unseaworthy boats braving the waves in search of work, better living ...

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The linkages between the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and IMO were explored during an event held on 28 November at IMO Headquarters to mark 40 years since the “Constitution ...

Ghana has formally escalated its maritime boundary dispute with Togo to international arbitration under the United Nations ...

The work of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has rolled on over the past few months. New Zealand continues to be engaged on issues that ...

When coast guard officers boarded junior seafarer Omkar Pawar’s ship off Trinidad and Tobago in 2020, one of them pointed a gun at his face.“They searched the ship. After two days, they found 450 ...

The Maritime Labor Convention 2006, sponsored by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and better known as MLC 2006, will enter into force on August 20, 2013. It has been ratified by 35 nations ...

The Federal Government has approved the domestication of the 2006 Maritime Labour Convention (MLC). The convention is expected to come into force by August 1, 2013. Already, 39 states representing 68 ...

Yemen’s Houthi rebels seized an Israeli-linked cargo ship in the Red Sea on Sunday, taking 25 crew members hostage. The rebels claimed the hijacking was in response to the ship’s connection to Israel, ...