Iceland and Ethiopia have become the latest member states of the International Labour Organization (ILO) to ratify the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC 2006), which sets out minimum international working and living conditions for seafarers on board ships.
The latest ratifications increase the number of states that have signed up to the MLC to 92, which represents over 91% of the world merchant shipping fleet. This is near the ILO’s target to achieve 100 ratifications this year,...