Amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), ensuring better protection to seafarers and their families will come into force in January 2017.
The amendments will require that a financial security system be in place to ensure that shipowners ensure compensation to seafarers and their families in the event of abandonment, death or long-term disability of seafarers due to an occupational injury, illness or hazard.
Mandatory certificates and other evidentiary documents will be required to be carried on board to establish that the financial security system is in place to protect the seafarers working on board.
Members had been given until July 18, 2016, to formally express their disagreement with the 2014 amendments, reports World Maritime news.
