Fitzpatrick said another “significant win” for seafarers and shipowners was the guidelines on the Fair Treatment of Seafarers ...

Itta is an Inupiat whaling captain as well as a politician ... But less ice also spells opportunity. Under a 1982 international treaty called the Convention on the Law of the Sea, Arctic nations ...

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) welcomes the series of landmark updates to ILO’s Maritime Labor Convention (MLC), ...

Iceland, Japan and Norway are the only three countries that still permit commercial whaling despite a 1986 moratorium by the International Whaling Commission (IWC). From 2019-2021, though, there was ...

New Delhi [India], April 11 (ANI): Policymakers, diplomats, and tech leaders highlighted the need for international cooperation ... In the absence of regulations, this growing challenge must ...

Today, member states' representatives (Coreper) agreed on the Council’s position concerning the targeted proposal to change the protection status of wolves in the EU, by amending the habitats ...

Maritime transport remains the only industry with a formally recognised global minimum wage, in place for seafarers since 1958. ILO’s 2006 Maritime Labour Convention, mandates that the minimum monthly ...

For a relatively brief period during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, this lonely crescent of sand at the edge of the Atlantic was the whaling capital of the world and one of the wealthiest ...

The U.S. pulled out of the climate talks at the International Maritime Organization in London this week, urging other countries to do the same and threatening to impose "reciprocal measures ...

REYKJAVIK, April 12, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Iceland's only active whaling company, Hvalur, will not hunt whales this summer for a second straight year because of global economic pressures, local media said ...