Problems of global governance: port-state control and ILO conventions

Bloor, Michael 2003. Problems of global governance: port-state control and ILO conventions. Presented at: Seafarers International Research Centre Symposium 2003, Cardiff University, 19 September 2003. Seafarers International Research Centre Symposium Proceedings (2003). Cardiff, UK: Seafarers International Research Centre, pp. 9-24.

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Abstract

This paper is an early report of an ESRC-funded comparative study of port-state enforcement of international regulations on seafarers’ health and safety. The study involves the shadowing of inspectors on their ship inspections in the UK, India and Russia, plus interviews with inspectors and key industry stakeholders in the three countries, and involves collaboration between Cardiff University, the Russian Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai and the International Labour Office in Geneva. However, the comparative analysis will not be complete until April 2004 and this paper simply provides an early report on the UK data. The idea for this study grew out of the attendance of Tony Lane and myself at the 29th meeting of the Joint Maritime Commission (JMC) at the ILO in Geneva in January 2001 which launched ‘The Geneva Accord’, the resolution to consolidate into a single convention all the various operative ILO regulations on seafaring, some of them stretching back to the inter-war period. Without in any way wishing to detract from the great worth of this task of consolidation, it was evident to me at Geneva that almost everyone attending that meeting believed that the main problems of global governance in the shipping industry lay not in inadequate regulation, but in inadequate enforcement. SIRC provided the background research papers for that Geneva meeting (ILO, 2001); it is hoped that, once the work of consolidation of the conventions is complete, the JMC may consider anew the problems of enforcement and that these findings will provide some background information to assist in this task. Certainly it is the case up to now that the practice of port-state control has received hardly any research attention, with Hawkins’s (1999) interview study of practice in the Asia Pacific Region providing the only comparative data.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC)
Publisher:	Seafarers International Research Centre
ISBN:	1900174227
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	6 March 2024
Last Modified:	07 Mar 2024 00:17
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/166934

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