The International Labour Organisation (ILO) this week concluded the latest round of minimum wage negotiations for able seafarers, following a meeting of the Joint Maritime Commission’s (JMC) Subcommittee on Wages of Seafarers, held in Geneva.
This global dialogue brought together representatives of shipowners and seafarers’ unions, coordinated respectively by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF).
Shipping remains the only sector with a formally
