MLC Convention

The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended, (MLC, 2006), was adopted by the 94th (Maritime) Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) on 23 February 2006.

The MLC, 2006 sets out the right of the world’s 1.5 million seafarers to decent conditions of work in almost every aspect of their working and living conditions, including minimum age, employment agreements, hours of work and rest, payment of wages, paid annual leave, repatriation, on board medical care, the use of recruitment and placement services, accommodation, food and catering, health and safety protection and accident prevention, and complaint procedures for seafarers.

Türk Loydu, within the authority from various flag State Administrations, makes the vessels’ MLC, 2006 inspection. It verifies DMLC Part II and MLC manual and issue Maritime Labour Certificate (MLC) upon satisfactory inspection (for Türkiye flagged vessels ‘Voluntary Statement of Compliance for the MLC, 2006).

The effective and continuously implementation of the ISM Code, ISPS Code and MLC,2006 Convention requirements by the ship Management Companies and the Türkiye flagged vessels is also very important in terms of maintaining the position of Türkiye in the whitelist on the Paris MoU Performance List.  

As a result of the ISM and ISPS audits and MLC inspections carried out by expert Türk Loydu auditors and inspectors, safe operation of vessels and increased performances in the Port State Controls are achieved.