Norway ratifies Maritime Labour Convention
13 February 2009Norway has become the latest state to ratify the International Labour Organisation's Maritime Labour Convention, following close on the heels of Panama. The Convention sets minimum standards to protect seafarers.The Convention will come into force once it has been ratified by 30 ILO member states and covers 33% of world gross tonnage. It has now been ratified by Norway, Panama, Liberia, the Marshall Islands and the Bahamas – representing more than 40% of the world's merchant fleet – and once it has been ratified by further states, is expected to come into force by 2011.
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Is there any move of the Philippines to follow suit on the countries that ratified the MLC as we are one of the biggest suppliers of labors worldwide?
I hope our congress will ratify it.
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