Resources on Shipping, ports, fisheries, and inland waterways sector

  1. Abandoned seafarers: Hungry, penniless and far from home

    21 February 2020

  2. India ratifies the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention and the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006

    09 October 2015

    India is the 31st ILO member State to ratify Convention No. 185 and the 66th to ratify the MLC, 2006

  3. Desk review of research on HIV/AIDS in the world of work

    31 July 2012

    This desk review was conducted by ILO/AIDS as part of the Inter-Agency Task Team on HIV workplace policies/programmes and private sector engagement (IATT/WPPS). It is based primarily on the research documents shared by the IATT members, covering vulnerability studies, stigma and discrimination studies, impact and cost-benefit studies.

  4. Proper ship breaking: a test for globalization and decent work

    03 November 2008

    The last voyage of the ship "Otapan" to a Turkish ship breaking yard last July was a victory for "pre-cleaning" advocates of reducing the human and environmental dangers inherent in ship dismantling and recycling. But does it also lead to decent working practices? Last week, experts from the ILO, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), and the Basel Convention met to discuss measures to promote guidelines that would make ship breaking not only clean but "green". Questions and answers with a ship breaking expert from the ILO Sectoral Activities Branch.