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

  1. © Ryan Brown / UN Women 2024
    ILO and IMO recommend new steps against shipboard violence, harassment, and sexual assault

    06 March 2024

    The organizations’ recommendations include amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention, a new IMO mandatory training for seafarers, and a joint IMO/ILO international awareness campaign.

  2. © Victor Libuku / ILO 2024
    New guidelines on medical examination of fishers adopted by the International Labour Organization and International Maritime Organization

    22 February 2024

    The crew of fishing vessels need to be medically fit for their physically demanding work. New medical examination guidelines will improve and standardize these examinations, leading to improved health and safety in the fishing sector.

  3. © Frederick Doerschem 2024
    New conclusions and recommendations pave the way to decent work in the inland waterways sector

    06 December 2023

    Governments, employers’ and workers’ representatives agreed on concrete measures to improve the living and working conditions of inland water transport workers and establish a level-playing field in the sector.

  4. © ILO 2024
    Portugal commits to address harassment and bullying in the maritime sector

    19 October 2023

    Harassment and bullying, particularly of women seafarers, are issues of great concern in shipping.

  5. © Mike Hood / IMO 2024
    Joint ILO-IMO meeting adopts guidelines on seafarer abandonment

    20 December 2022

    New measures to improve conditions for seafarers, including those who have been abandoned, have been adopted at a meeting involving governments and maritime workers and employers’ organizations.

  6. ILO: Coastal communities are enabling key to Indonesia’s blue economic development and implementation

    12 September 2022

    ILO Country Director for Indonesia and Timor-Leste participates in the G20 Side Event Seminar to highlight the potential of the Blue Economy Roadmap to create jobs and improve livelihoods in coastal communities in Indonesia.

  7. Oman: 100th Member State to ratify the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

    31 March 2022

    Oman is the 100th Member State of the ILO to have ratified the Convention.

  8. San Marino ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

    31 March 2022

    San Marino is the 101st Member State of the ILO to have ratified the Convention.

  9. Sierra Leone ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

    31 March 2022

    Sierra Leone became the 99th Member State of the ILO to ratify the Convention.

  10. Mozambique ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

    28 May 2021

    Mozambique became the 98th Member State of the ILO to ratify the Convention.