Shipping: Conditions of Employment
(asked on 15th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many bulk carriers registered on the Paris MoU on Port State Control’s White List have been detained by Maritime and Coastguard Agency inspectors for breaches of Standards in Title 2, Conditions of Employment in the Maritime Labour Convention, to date; and under what flag each such vessel was registered.
The number of ships detained by Maritime and Coastguard Agency inspectors for breaches of Standards in Title 2, Conditions of Employment in the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006, since August 2014, when the MLC came into force in the UK, for ships registered to countries on the Paris MoU White List is shown below, with their flag of registry:
Type of vessel | Number Detained | Flag(s) |
Chemical tanker | 0 | - |
Oil tanker | 1 | Marshall Islands |
Offshore supply vessel | 1 | Marshall Islands |
Bulk carrier | 3 | Marshall Islands (3) |
Passenger ship | 0 | - |
Roll-on roll-off passenger ship | 0 | - |
General cargo ship | 6 | Panama (5), Malta (1) |