Rights debate threatens to derail new casualty code

Subscriber story Wed 27 Feb, 2008 | Posted in: Strait Talking
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IMO logo2The amendment of Solas to make mandatory a flag state investigation into a casualty could be delayed by US insistence that the right of seafarers to legal advice is removed from the text. 

The new code, due to be adopted in May and come into force next year aims to improve casualty reporting processes and increase the flow of information available to IMO which can be used as...

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