crew-rightsMarshall Islands Flag Labor Law: The 10,000 Dollar Clause and Other Fine Print
The RMI flag has the best inspection record of the big three and a statutory death compensation floor of 10,000 dollars. Both facts are...
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contractsSeafarer Contract Duration: How Many Months Can a Seaman's Contract Be Under the MLC?
The MLC does not fix a contract length. It caps the service period before the flight home is owed at less than 12 months,...
crew-rightsLiberia Flag Labor Law: The American Rulebook Behind the World's Biggest Flag
Liberia is the largest flag in the world, run by a private company in Virginia, with US maritime law written into its statute. What...
crew-rightsPanama Flag Labor Law: What Decree 86 Really Says About Your Contract
Panama wrote the MLC into 206 articles of national law. Some of them cut sharper than crews expect: a 16 week sickness cap, a...
crew-rightsFlags of Convenience: The Flag on the Stern Decides the Law in Your Contract
The flag is a legal decision someone else made about your job. It picks the country whose employment law sits under your SEA. Here...
crew-rightsMalta Flag MLC Complaints: How the Largest EU Register Handles Them
Malta runs the largest ship register in the EU, and Transport Malta keeps a dedicated MLC complaints address. The verified contact, the escalation order,...
contractsSeafarer Contract Review, Clause by Clause: A Walkthrough for Crew
Flag, contract, report: how the free MLC Contract Check reads a seafarer employment agreement against MLC 2006 and your flag state, and how to...
crew-rightsMarshall Islands Flag: Your Flag State Sits in Virginia, and Here Is How to Reach It
Ships flying the Marshall Islands flag are administered from Reston, Virginia by International Registries, Inc. What that means for an MLC complaint and which...
crew-lifeThe Seafarer Phone Setup Before Joining a Ship
A practical seafarer phone setup before sign-on: documents and contract PDF, offline maps, dual SIM and eSIM, two-factor access, welfare contacts, power bank rules...
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