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A new welcome for visiting seafarers

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The MLC requires member states to ensure that seafarers have access to shore-based facilities and services to secure their health and well-being, and recommends that they set up welfare boards to ensure that such facilities and services are appropriate. ISWAN's global project will provide information, guidance and advice to help set up welfare boards where they do not yet exist, establish minimum standards and promote best practice.

The project says that a successful welfare board should involve the participation of individuals and agencies such as harbourmasters, port agents, port health, seafaring unions, voluntary organisations and the welfare providers, along with local authorities, and should encourage financial support through port levies, donations and other sources.

Kimberly Karlshoej, head of ITF Seafarers’ Trust, said: "The promotion and utilisation of port welfare boards is a critical step in improving services to seafarers during their all too short stays in the world's ports”.

The International Port Welfare Partnership Project: portwelfare.org

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南米大陸横断回廊のトラック運転手を保護するILO勧告

南米大陸横断回廊の道路運送を持続可能にする画期的な勧告を ILO が発表  この ILO 勧告 は南米大陸横断回廊を走行するトラック運転手の労働条件・安全衛生向上のための具体的な計画を示したもので、南米の ITF 加盟組合、使用者団体、各国政府の合意の成果である。  チリ、ボリビア、アルゼンチン、パラグアイ、ブラジルを横断するこの回廊は、輸送コストの削減と雇用機会の拡大を通じて