Chapter
2. International Shipping
The Globalising Processes in Shipping
The New Economic Environment
The Structure of World Shipping
The Institutions of Shipping
3. Seafarers and Employment
Nationality and Cultural Diversity
Good and Bad Ships and Shipowners
4. Failures, Frauds and Abuses
Causes of Company Collapse
The Baltic Shipping Company
Consequences to Seafarers from Company Collapse and Neglect
The Diversity of Complaints
Cheating on Wages and Intimidation
Refusal of Medical Treatment
Unfair and Dishonoured Contracts
Employment Agency Illegal Practices
Survey by MORI for the ITF ( 1996)
5. Adriatic Tankers I: A Short History of the Company
Greek Shipowners and Shipping
The Origins of Adriatic Tankers
The Growth and Characteristics of the Fleet
6. Adriatic Tankers II: Management and Finance
Management Structure and Style
Sources of Finance for Adriatic Tankers
The Effect of Zissimatos' Personality on the Loans
Asset-based Lending on Adriatic's Ships
Financial Problems Leading to the Collapse
Re- financing and Re- entry
7. Adriatic Tankers III: The Tale of Two Ships
Adriatic Tankers Takes Over
The Fate of the New Crew of the Lourdas
8. Seafarers and Their Families and Allies
International Transport Workers Federation
Wider Functions of the ITF
Relations with Adriatic Tanker Company
Help from the Christian Missions
9. The Legal Rights of the Abused and Abandoned Seafarer
The Sources of International Maritime Labour Law
The Role of the International Labour Organisation
The Seafarer's Right to Wages and Repatriation under ILO Instruments
The ILO's Recommendation Concerning Seafarers' Wages, Hours of Work and Manning of Ships
The ILO's Repatriation of Seafarers Convention
Why don't these ILO Instruments have Appreciable Effect on the Substandard Sector?
( i) Vague or ambiguous wording
( ii) Putting a time limit on the claiming of legal rights
( iii) Referring disputes to an inaccessible third party
( iv) Discouraging industrial action
( i) Obtaining legal representation and enforcing a lien
( ii) The genuine link concept fact or fantasy?
The Search for a Solution–Compulsory Insurance
10. Towards Global Governance in Shipping
Defects in the Present International Regulatory System
Uninsured Seafarers and Ships
New Developments in International Legislation
The Legal Fiction of Flag and Territory at Sea
Transition to Global Governance in Shipping
Appendix 1. Flags of Convenience and Second Registries, June 1997
Appendix 2. Ship losses by Flag ( 1996)
outside territorial sea 170
outside territorial sea 177
Baltic International Maritime Council [BIMCO] 16
Baltic Shipping Company 39
Black Sea Shipping Co. 48
Centre for Seafarers Rights [US]
Code of Good Management 169
Comité Maritime International [CMI]
in collapsed companies 41
Employment [Illegal Practices] 57-9
Globalisation in Shipping
deaths Adriatic Tankers 119-20
uninsured seafarers and ships 169-70
International Association of Classification Societies [IACS] 17
International Chamber of Shipping [ICS]
International Christian Maritime Association [ICMA]
International Committee for Seafarers Welfare [ICSW]
International Labour Organisation [ILO]
International Maritime Industries Forum [IMIF] 16
International Maritime Organisations [IMO]
International Shipping Federation [ISF]
International Transport Workers Federation [ITF] [main entry] 124-31
Marine Risk Management 124
Apostleship of the Sea 28
Apostleship of the Sea 33
National Bank of Greece 76
Shipping World Structure 12-14
Stanford Ship Management 82
Technological Changes 10-11