'Maritime Maisie' Brings Sharp Focus to Shipowners', Salvors' and Insurers' Campaign to Urge Governments to Adopt IMO Places of Refuge Guidelines
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Published on 13 February 2014
Press Release: ICS Shipowners, Salvors and Insurers – through their respective trade associations – have jointly called for the prompt and proper implementation of international measures to provide a Place of Refuge for stricken vessels, following a series of incidents where casualty vessels have been delayed in accessing a safe harbour.
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) says that it has noted “with dismay” the refusal by some coastal States to make places of refuge available, thereby risking lives and the environment even after the high profile cases of the Stolt Valor and the MSC Flaminia in 2012. And the plight of the Maritime Maisie presently off the coast of Japan has brought this subject back into sharp focus. The 44,000
Maritime sector to address abandonment of seafarers and shipowners’ liability
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GENEVA – The world’s leading maritime nations and representatives of ship owners and seafarers, are to address the issues of abandonment of seafarers and the rapid settlement of claims for compensation in the case of a seafarer’s death or long-term disability at the first meeting of a Special Tripartite Committee established under the ILO’s Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006).
More than 300 maritime representatives from all regions of the world will gather at the ILO on 7-11 April to consider the two key proposals jointly submitted by the international representatives of ship owners and seafarers to amend the Code (Standards and Guidelines) of the MLC, 2006. The meeting will also be a major forum for an international exchange of
FLAG STATE RESPONSIBILITIES AND SEAFARERS’ RIGHTS
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History and role of the Flag State
The flag of a ship has, from earliest days, provided an indication of that vessel’s nationality – the country under which it derived its legal status and whose laws applied to its operations. It was, in practical terms, necessary to fly a flag which was a visible indication of the state under whose protection that ship operated, backed up with the papers which would be carried by the Master. And as international trade developed in the Middle Ages, protection was important as warring nations and city states built naval forces to establish their writ at sea and control seas they claimed as their own.
The earliest examples of what have become known as “open registers” or “flags of
Seafarers’ Rights International
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What We Do
Seafarers’ rights is a complex area of law. It spans international and national laws, and it crosses law disciplines such as maritime, labour, human rights, criminal and environmental law. There can be conflicts of laws. There are unique challenges in the enforcement of laws for seafarers in what is a highly deregulated industry where there is functional separation of ownership, operation and regulation.
Shipping, of its nature, is transnational. At any one time, a number of different States may have some kind of interest in a particular ship, and the seafarers that work on that ship. The problems were aptly illustrated in a quote that appeared on the front page of The Independent newspaper which was published as the stricken tanker Sea Empresswas