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The new qualitative study from the Global Maritime Forum and the All Aboard Alliance contains a wide spectrum of perspectives from women seafarers who address the challenges they experience … |
https://maritime-professionals.com/15-key-pain-points-for-women-at-sea/
People can do wonderful things at all stages of their life and age shouldn’t necessarily be a determinant. According to Oscar Wilde, the old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything and those who...
Nautilus International applauded the enforcement of the ‘Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) for fishing’ for providing decent working conditions for the fishing industry and protecting those working in the sector.
Specifically, the ILO 188 entitles all workers in the industry to written terms and conditions of employment, decent accommodation and food, medical care, regulated working time, repatriation, social protection and health and safety on board. Also, the convention sets minimum standards...
https://safety4sea.com/nautilus-applauds-uk-for-ratifying-the-mlc-for-fishing/
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) informs that two hundred wharfies have stopped work for 24 hours at the Dubai Ports container terminal in Fremantle, accusing the company of failing to bargain in good faith as negotiations for a new workplace agreement drag on for more than 15 months.
MUA Western Australia Branch Secretary Christy Cain commented that “What we’ve seen in that time is the senior management of the Dubai-based company issue ultimatums, threaten massive job cuts, and attempt to...
https://safety4sea.com/wharfies-at-fremantle-container-terminal-take-24-hour-strike-action/
Namely, Human Rights at Sea note that such “misleading and exploitative recruitment practices by some labor recruiters and overseas employment agencies are a continued blight on raising social welfare and human rights standards in the global maritime sector”.
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https://safety4sea.com/call-to-end-exploitative-recruitment-fees-for-seafarers-and-fishers/
The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division, Keyport, a component organization of NAVSEA, is planning to take a load off the shoulders of the sailors and civilian workforce by developing technology known as exoskeletons.
This forms part of NAVSEA’s “Campaign Plan 2.0” governing its strategic vision, which includes the goal of improving systems and capabilities while equipping people with the best tools available.
Human Assistive Technology (HAT) is the development and use of technology to...
https://safety4sea.com/us-navy-testing-exoskeletons-to-reduce-load-for-sailors/
A new report by OECD, ILO, IOM and UNICEF provides first ever estimates by international organizations of child labour and trafficking for forced labour in global supply chains. The report finds the estimated share of total child labour in global supply chains ranges from 9% in Northern Africa and Western Asia to 26% in Eastern and South-eastern Asia.
The results show that, while child labour is considerably more common in production for the domestic economy, there is also a non-negligible risk...
The NGO Shipbreaking Platform issued its Q3 2019 results noting that there were a total of 122 ships broken, out of which 73 were sold to the beaches of South Asia for dirty and dangerous breaking.
The NGO’s report for Q2 revealed that 193 ships were dismantled and the 146 of these were sold to South Asian scrapping beaches.
According to the report, between July and August, 11 workers lost their lives, whereas 20 were severely injured when breaking ships in Bangladesh and India.
Up to now, the NGO...
https://safety4sea.com/73-out-of-122-ships-sold-to-south-asian-scrapping-beaches-in-q3/
Namely, the report highlights that from the total 374 ships that were broken in the first half of 2019, 156 were broken in Bangladesh, leading to significant damages to both human health and the environment.
In fact, the number of ships broken in the first half of 2019 has increased by...
https://safety4sea.com/bangladesh-the-preferred-choice-for-ships-scrapping/
A total of 193 ships were dismantled in the second quarter of 2019 and the 146 of these were sold to South Asian scrapping beaches, according to new figures released by NGO Shipbreaking Platform. Between April and June, the Platform recorded three accidents that killed at least five workers on the beach of Chittagong, Bangladesh, bringing the total death-toll of the shipbreaking industry this year to at least eight workers.
In the second quarter of 2019, Japanese, Saudi Arabian and Greek ship...
https://safety4sea.com/146-ships-sold-to-south-asian-scrapping-beaches-in-q2-2019/