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9780745315409

Voyages of Abuse Seafarers, Human Rights and International Shipping

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  • ISBN13:

    9780745315409

  • ISBN10:

    0745315402

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-12-01
  • Publisher: Pluto Press

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Author Biography

A.D. Couper is former head of the Department of Maritime Studies and International Transport at the University of Cardiff and past Director of the Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC) in that department, the world's leading maritime studies centre. He has several years of shipping experience and has been a consultant with UN agencies, IMO, ILO, and UNCTAD. C.J. Walsh has experience in tankers and pilotage. He has also worked in port operations, hydrography and salvage in East Africa and the Middle East. B.A. Stanberry is director of a research and consultancy company specialising in the legal aspects of seafarers' occupational health and safety, and is a regular contributor to journals in this field. G.L. Boerne has experience in seafaring and the small vessel sector in developing countries

Table of Contents

Tables and Figuresp. vi
Acknowledgementsp. ix
'Us Poor Seamen'p. 1
International Shippingp. 8
Seafarers and Employmentp. 19
Failures, Frauds and Abusesp. 35
Adriatic Tankers I: A Short History of the Companyp. 62
Adriatic Tankers II: Management and Financep. 72
Adriatic Tankers III: The Tale of Two Shipsp. 94
Seafarers and Their Families and Alliesp. 118
The Legal Rights of the Abused and Abandoned Seafarerp. 139
Towards Global Governance of Shippingp. 166
Notesp. 180
Appendices
Flags of Convenience and Second Registries, June 1997p. 192
Ship Losses by Flag, 1996p. 193
Examples of Flag of Convenience and Second Registry Enactment of National Laws Giving Effect to ILO Recommendations and Conventions on Repatriation and Wagesp. 194
Glossaryp. 205
Indexp. 208
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