Contents -- Tables and Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. 'Us Poor Seamen' -- Changing Conditions -- Structure of the Book -- Those Involved -- The Database -- The Case Study -- 2. International Shipping -- The Globalising Processes in Shipping -- The New Economic Environment -- Cutting Crew Costs -- The Structure of World Shipping -- The Shipowners -- The Institutions of Shipping -- Conclusion -- 3. Seafarers and Employment -- Introduction -- Recruitment -- Training of Seafarers -- Nationality and Cultural Diversity -- The Divided Ship -- Good and Bad Ships and Shipowners -- Wages -- Victualling/Nutrition -- Hazards of Seafaring -- The Family -- Conclusions -- 4. Failures, Frauds and Abuses -- Causes of Company Collapse -- Tidal Marine -- Colocotronis -- Saleninvest -- Sanko -- Regency Cruises -- The Baltic Shipping Company -- Unimar Maritime Services -- Dragonix -- Consequences to Seafarers from Company Collapse and Neglect -- The Diversity of Complaints -- Abandonment -- Repatriation Refusals -- Cheating on Wages and Intimidation -- Sexual Harassment -- Political Pressure -- Refusal of Medical Treatment -- Victimisation -- Poor Food -- Unfair Dismissal -- Unfair and Dishonoured Contracts -- Employment Agency Illegal Practices -- Unseaworthy Ships -- 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 -- Quality of the Fleet -- The Seafarers -- The Fall -- 6. Adriatic Tankers II: Management and Finance -- Ownership -- Flagging Policies -- Management Structure and Style -- Commercial Management -- Financial Opportunities -- 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 -- Reactions on the Market -- 7. Adriatic Tankers III: The Tale of Two Ships -- Introduction -- The Lourdas -- Adriatic Tankers Takes Over -- Appeals for Help -- Isolated On Board -- Abandonment Ashore -- The Fate of the New Crew of the Lourdas -- The end of the Lourdas -- The Kyoto I -- A New Crew -- Legal Action -- A Time of Desperation -- Repatriation by the ITF -- Escape of the Ship -- 8. Seafarers and Their Families and Allies -- The Seafarers' Allies -- International Transport Workers Federation -- Wider Functions of the ITF -- Relations with Adriatic Tanker Company -- Help from the Christian Missions -- Actions by the Seafarers -- 9. The Legal Rights of the Abused and Abandoned Seafarer -- Introduction -- 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 -- Case of the Glory Cape -- Problem of Enforcement -- ( i) Obtaining legal representation and enforcing a lien -- ( ii) The genuine link concept fact or fantasy? -- The Search for a Solution-Compulsory Insurance -- Conclusions -- 10. Towards Global Governance in Shipping -- Assignment of Blame -- Defects in the Present International Regulatory System -- Uninsured Seafarers and Ships -- Human Rights.

New Developments in International Legislation -- The Legal Fiction of Flag and Territory at Sea -- Transition to Global Governance in Shipping -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Appendix 1. Flags of Convenience and Second Registries, June 1997 -- Appendix 2. Ship losses by Flag ( 1996) -- Appendix 3 -- Glossary -- Index -- Abandonment -- 42-4 -- in hotels [AT] 100 -- in hotels [AT] 121-4 -- on Kyoto One 108-17 -- outside territorial sea 170 -- outside territorial sea 177 -- responsibility 158 -- responsibility 161 -- Admiral 1 51 -- Agencies [Employment] -- 57-8 -- recruiting 2 -- recruiting 21 -- recruiting 34 -- Al Karim 50 -- Alimos One 44 -- Allotments -- 27 -- 46 -- 135 -- Anchen 132 -- Anna Sierra 32 -- Annapurna -- 121 -- 132 -- 134 -- Arctic Sea 32 -- Argostoli Bay -- 83 -- 132 -- Arntzen, Morten 78-9 -- Asena One 47 -- Ashley, John 1 -- Assos Bay -- 118 -- 120 -- 121 -- Atheras Bay 121 -- Atlas 52 -- Australian Vessels 26 -- Avrig 53 -- Baltic Exchange 8 -- Baltic International Maritime Council [BIMCO] 16 -- Baltic Shipping Company 39 -- Baltic Universal 50 -- Bank Loans -- 10 -- 76-83 -- 87 -- 116 -- Bank of Scotland -- 80 -- 85 -- 104-5 -- Barclays Bank -- 80 -- 89 -- 107 -- Barlow, Edward 1 -- Basilakes, Nic 92 -- Black Sea Shipping Co. 48 -- Blacklists -- 52 -- 96 -- 137 -- 150 -- Blue Certificate [ITF] -- 95 -- 126 -- 173 -- Blue Sky II 87 -- Blue Wave 87 -- BP Shipping 21 -- Bright Duke 94 -- Camellia 121 -- Cape Breeze 119 -- Cape Spirit -- 69 -- 87 -- 121 -- 132 -- Cape Sun 87 -- Cape Wind 69 -- Capella II 87 -- Captain Lucas II 132 -- Captain Lucas III 68 -- Centre for Seafarers Rights [US] -- 175 -- 204 -- Chapman, P.K. -- 3 -- 150 -- Chemoil 87 -- Chios Dream 48 -- Classification Societies.

4 -- 17 -- 167 -- Adriatic Tankers' 69 -- Adriatic Tankers' 89 -- Cockroft, David 125 -- Code of Good Management 169 -- Coffee Express 51 -- Colocotronis 37 -- Comité Maritime International [CMI] -- 16 -- 141 -- Concord Aska 53 -- Consortia -- 10 -- 15 -- Contracts [crews] -- 22 -- 53-7 -- by nationality 27 -- dual 151 -- enforcement 176 -- Lourdas'[AT] 102 -- unfair clauses 45 -- unfair clauses 55-7 -- unseen 151 -- unseen 178 -- Countess -- 59 -- 67 -- 68 -- 132 -- 135 -- Craggs, Peter 82 -- Crew -- complaints 41-53 -- costs 11 -- costs 12 -- costs 27 -- in collapsed companies 41 -- nationalities 23 -- nationalities 27 -- nationalities 74 -- Cyprus -- 7 -- 23-4 -- tonnage 14 -- Den Norske Bank 87-9 -- Dolicha Bay 121 -- Dragon Supreme 40 -- Dragonix 40 -- East Wind 121 -- Eastern Navigator 121 -- EC Shipping Regulations -- 17 -- training 23 -- Employment [Illegal Practices] 57-9 -- Everard, E.M. 179 -- Fairwind Shipping -- 119 -- 124 -- Family -- 2 -- 29 -- 32-3 -- Fanti 163-4 -- Fiscardo Bay -- 119 -- 121 -- 132 -- Flag Mercindi 50 -- Flag of Convenience -- 3 -- 11 -- 14 -- 74 -- definition 205-6 -- main entries 192 -- Food -- 28 -- 53 -- ILO Convention 142 -- Fuji 122 -- Genuine Link 14 -- Globalisation in Shipping -- 9-10 -- 172 -- 176 -- Glory Cape -- 47 -- 152 -- Goddess Orori 44 -- Gremmanos, Costas Th. -- 77 -- 80 -- Harlaftis, Gelena -- 24 -- 75 -- Hassan Bey 43 -- Hazards of Seafaring -- 29-31 -- deaths Adriatic Tankers 119-20 -- losses of ships 193 -- Hegg 122 -- Hikari I 122 -- Hill, C. 160 -- Hill, J. 25 -- Illyria 45 -- Insurance -- 157-60 -- Adriatic cover 89 -- Adriatic cover 161 -- P&I and seafarers 162 -- under P&I 17 -- under P&I 160-1 -- uninsured seafarers and ships 169-70 -- International Association of Classification Societies [IACS] 17 -- International Chamber of Shipping [ICS] -- 16.

86 -- 169 -- 175 -- International Christian Maritime Association [ICMA] -- 17 -- 132 -- International Committee for Seafarers Welfare [ICSW] -- 32 -- 132 -- International Labour Organisation [ILO] -- 5 -- 15 -- 17 -- 139 -- 168 -- 174 -- 177 -- 178 -- conventions 57 -- conventions 142-3 -- liens 153-5 -- recommendations 144 -- rights under ILO 144-9 -- training 22-3 -- International Maritime Industries Forum [IMIF] 16 -- International Maritime Organisations [IMO] -- 5 -- 15 -- 16 -- 140-1 -- 168 -- 171 -- 174 -- 177 -- 178 -- white list 23 -- International Shipping Federation [ISF] -- 16 -- 20 -- 169 -- 175 -- International Transport Workers Federation [ITF] [main entry] 124-31 -- Intersea 44 -- Intertanko -- 16 -- 70 -- 86 -- 129 -- 169 -- Intimidation 45-7 -- Iolcos Pioneer 46 -- Ionian Breeze -- 69 -- 121 -- Ionian Challenger 122 -- Ionian Eagle -- 122 -- 132 -- Ionian Glory -- 68 -- 122 -- 132 -- Ionian Jade 122 -- Ionian Light 122 -- Ionian Mariner -- 67 -- 132 -- Ionian Master 122 -- Ionian Prince -- 122 -- 132 -- Ionian Sailor -- 67 -- 129-30 -- Ionian Sky 122 -- Ionian Sprinter 122 -- Ionian Star 119 -- Ionian Wave 122 -- Irene VII 122 -- Kathleen D 59-60 -- Kelly, Juan 86 -- Kinnon, Neil 169 -- Kyoto I -- 94 -- 106-17 -- 122 -- 138 -- 177 -- Lai, Karen -- 33 -- 136 -- Leona 3 43 -- Lourdas -- 94-106 -- 119 -- 122 -- 132 -- 149 -- Maistros -- 1 119 -- 122 -- MARCOM 181 -- Marilia A 49 -- Marine Risk Management 124 -- Medical Treatment -- 30 -- 49-50 -- 120 -- 136 -- ILO recommendations 144 -- Milne, Charlie -- 75 -- 100 -- 129-30 -- Missions [main entry] -- 131-7 -- Apostleship of the Sea 28 -- Apostleship of the Sea 33 -- Flying Angel 1-5 -- Stella Maris 1-5 -- MORI Survey 60-1 -- Muroran 122 -- Myrtos Bay 122 -- National Bank of Greece 76 -- Nautical Institute 16 -- Nova Progress -- 2 -- 119 -- 122 -- NUMAST 138.

Ocean Breeze 1 120.