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Jun. 13, 2016
Overwhelming ILO support for the protection against harassment and bullying onboard ships, improved procedures concerning the maritime labour certificate and an electronic seafarer identity document
Government, employer and worker delegates to the International Labour Conference (ILC), at the 105th annual meeting of International Labour Organization (ILO), overwhelmingly voted in favour of approving amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC,2006) in order to better protect seafarers against shipboard harassment and bullying and allow for an extension of the validity of maritime labour certificates in circumstances where ships have passed the relevant inspection but where a new certificate cannot immediately be issued and made available on board.
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Jun. 10, 2016
Peru becomes 51st State to accede to Ballast Water Management Convention
Peru has acceded to the Ballast Water Management Convention (BWM Convention), the IMO treaty designed to counter the threat to marine ecosystems by potentially invasive species transported in ships' ballast water.
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Jun. 9, 2016
Liberian Registry launches electronic oil record book
The Liberian Registry, in partnership with Prevention at Sea Ltd, a Cyprus-based maritime compliance technology company, has launched an innovative software product designed to replace traditional paper oil record books (ORBs) and to facilitate correct ORB entries into an efficient electronic format.
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Jun. 6, 2016
Posidonia Kicks Off with Prime Minister's Address
Posidonia 2016 kicked off Monday evening with opening remarks from the Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras, and many other high-level officials from around the world.
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May. 30, 2016
PARIS MOU AGREES ON A CONCENTRATED INSPECTION CAMPAIGN ON MARPOL ANNEX VI IN 2018
The Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (Paris MoU) held its 49th Committee meeting in Haugesund, Norway. Mr. Brian Hogan chaired the meeting, held from 23 - 27 May 2016.
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May. 23, 2016
Ballast Water: The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Like the story about the boy who cried wolf, the shipping industry has been told several times that the entry into force of the Ballast Water Convention is ‘imminent,’ says the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) in its newly published 2016 Annual Review.
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May. 2, 2016
Grounded Container Ship in Suez Canal Refloated
The shipping agency GAC reports that the grounded 12,500 TEU container ship MSC Fabiola was refloated in the early hours of Saturday, April 30, and resumed her southbound journey on the Suez Canal with an escort of five tugs.
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May. 1, 2016
Russia Readies Nuclear Container Ship
The world’s only nuclear-powered container ship Sevmorput is being readied to transport building materials to Russia’s new military base on Kotelny Island in the New Siberian Islands.
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May. 1, 2016
South Korea Revives GPS Backup After Cyber Attack
South Korea has revived a project to build a backup ship navigation system that would be difficult to hack after a recent wave of GPS signal jamming attacks it blamed on North Korea disrupted fishing vessel operations, officials say.
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Apr. 29, 2016
First Ship to Transit the Expanded Panama Canal Named
China’s COSCO Shipping has won the draw for the first transit through the expanded Panama Canal during the waterway’s inauguration on Sunday, June 26.
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