Fourth Meeting of the Special Tripartite Committee of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006
Progress against milestone 3.2020.1:
International labour and human rights regulation related to onshore and offshore workers enters into force and is increasingly ratified
The fourth meeting of the Special Tripartite Committee (STC) of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) has been announced to take place at the ILO in Geneva from 19 to 23 April 2021.
Ahead of the meetings, the STC is accepting proposed amendments to the Code of the MLC, 2006, in accordance with Article XV of the Convention, deadline to be confirmed.
Read more and propose an amendment on the ILO website.
Alastair Fischbacher
Alastair Fischbacher
Co-Chair, Independent Trusteee
Alastair’s career started at sea. Qualifying as a Master Mariner he came ashore and worked in roles including cargo superintendent, chartering, coal marketing, mine acquisitions and rail and terminal operations before being responsible for the commercial and legal ownership frameworks and the construction and ongoing operation of a fleet of ships ranging from 70-205,000 deadweight bulk and specialist carriers of a value of around US$1 billion for Rio Tinto Marine.
With additional responsibility for sustainable development in Rio Tinto Marine, Alastair was the driving force in their founding membership of the SSI, joining the SSI board on its inauguration and has served since then, except for 2014-2016 when he was CEO of the SSI. He was also on the inaugural board of the World Ocean Council and was chair from 2013-2014. He was a director of RightShip Pty Limited, the dry and wet ship vetting company from 2008 and held the position of chairman from 2009 to 2013. He was also chair of the Sailors’ Society marine charity from 2014-2019. Alastair remains a member of the Lloyd’s Register Classing Committee and is President-elect of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology.
Elizabeth Petit González
Elizabeth Petit González
Head of Communications & Partnerships
Elizabeth joined the SSI Secretariat in March 2020 from her home in Copenhagen, Denmark. With a background in international business and communications and an interest in sustainability, she was interested in the private sector’s role in pushing forward the sustainability agenda, as well as the power of multi-stakeholder engagement in driving collective change. She graduated with an MSc in International Marketing and Management from Copenhagen Business School and worked with partnerships and communications in the start-up world before joining SSI.
Elizabeth is responsible for communications and partnerships at SSI, working to widen the scope of conversation in shipping from decarbonisation to a holistic approach to sustainability, and identifying like-minded organisations in the shipping and sustainability spaces.
Originally from Venezuela, she is now based in Malmö, Sweden.
Nicole Rencoret
Nicole Rencoret
Head of Partnerships & Development
Nicole is a facilitator of conversations, an engager of stakeholders and a believer in the power of partnerships.
Nicole joined the Sustainable Shipping Initiative Secretariat in September 2018 where she is responsible for strategic communications and thought leadership, stakeholder engagement and development for the SSI and Ship Recycling Transparency Initiative. She has specific expertise in sustainable development policy and strategy, organisational strategy and learning as well as multi-stakeholder initiatives.
An Australian/Chilean national, Nicole’s career has seen her live and work with the UN and other development-related organisations across the globe in Timor-Leste, Switzerland, Kenya, Niger, USA, Palestine, Haiti, Colombia, Fiji and Denmark (where she is currently based). She graduated with an MBA from Warwick Business School and also holds an MA in Professional Communication.
Marcio Moura
Marcio Moura
Global Logistics Director, Bunge
Marcio Valentim Moura has more than 25 years of experience in the agribusiness sector, leading teams in operations, trading, logistics and management. He joined Bunge in 2000 and in his current role as Global Logistics Director he leads planning and coordination of commodities supply chain, sales, and ocean freight demands on a global scale. Mr. Moura holds a Bachelor Degree in International Relations from Centro Universitario Lusiada and an Executive MBA in Supply Chain Management from ETH Zurich.
David Peel
David Peel
Independent Trustee
David has a strong background in maritime safety and quality with significant experience in Safety Management System recertification, tanker vetting, training and auditing, and conducting risk assessments of vessels and port authorities, and in March 2017 David was appointed as a Director at the Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI).
David has consulted on ISO 9000, International Safety Management, safety and quality and related auditing services to a range of companies including P&I Clubs, industry associations and various ship owners. He began his career with the P&O General Cargo Division and has served as a First Mate and Master on offshore supply vessels and salvage tugs.
Simon Bennett
Simon Bennett
Sustainability Adviser, Swire Shipping
39 years ago, Simon Bennett joined Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO) which provides marine support services to the global offshore oil and gas exploration and production industry. Following several voyages as Master, he came ashore in 1991, working as HSE and Country Manager in Brunei, HSE Manager with Swire Production Testers working with their rig-based Early Production Systems for Maersk in Qatar and Shell in Iran, Marketing Manager in Dubai, before he moved to his last but one job as General Director,managing the contracts and operations of SPO’s three new icebreaking Platform Supply Vessels in the Russian Far East.
Returning to the warmth of Singapore in 2008, he wore the hat of the GM for Sustainable Development for both SPO (sold in 2022), and since late 2010 also for The China Navigation Company (renamed Swire Shipping in 2021), the Swire group’s privately owned deep-sea container and bulk shipping company (the latter split out as a separate company within the Swire group: Swire Bulk, in 2022). SPO, Swire Shipping and Swire Bulk all had/have their Operational Headquarters in Singapore, and have responsibly recycled 18 ships in the past 5 years in both China and India.
Simon retired, after more than 38 years with the Swire group marine companies at the end of Oct 2022, but has been retained as a Sustainability Adviser covering many of the legacy, but non-decarbonisation, areas of sustainability. He has been on the Board of Trustees of the Sustainable Shipping Initiative, for which Swire Shipping was both the founding member in Asia, and was a founding member of the steering group of the Ship Recycling Transparency Initiative (SRTI). He is also on the board of the World Ocean Council, a member of the BIMCO ESG group, and working with the Singapore Standards Organisation as the Singapore Shipping Association representative to develop an environmental standard.
Katharine Palmer
Katharine Palmer
Global Sustainability Manager, Lloyd’s Register
Katharine Palmer qualified with a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science from the University of Leeds, UK and a MSc in Environmental Biogeochemistry from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Katharine has 20 years experience in marine environment and the shipping industry and currently is the global head of sustainability for Lloyd’s Register Marine & Offshore business, providing advice and insight to a wide range of maritime stakeholders including regulators, ship owners and operators and trade associations on sustainability and environmental leading practice and future strategies.
Katharine is an established shipping industry influencer and thought leader in climate change, environment and sustainability and has held a number of positions on external industry bodies, currently Katharine is an Elected Trustee for the Sustainable Shipping Initiative and co-chairs the IMarEST technical leadership Board.
John Kornerup Bang
John Kornerup Bang
Independent Trustee
John Kornerup Bang is SVP, Sustainability Transformation at Stora Enso, responsible for driving leadership and growth using sustainability and climate change as levers. Before joining Stora Enso, John served 10 years as Director, Climate Change & Sustainability Strategy at Maersk and 10 years in WWF, where he worked on sustainable globalisation.
Over the years, John has served in a number of fiduciary roles related to sustainable development, notably as Board Member in Fair Trade Denmark, Board Member and Founder of the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, and as advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s High Level Advisory Group on sustainable transportation.
Guy Campbell
Guy Campbell
Independent Trustee
A dry cargo specialist, Guy Campbell became a Baltic Exchange member in 1991 having commenced his career as a shipbroker at JE Hyde & Co. He joined Koch Industries in 1997, spending 10 years as a Chartering Manager and eventually as Director, Ocean Freight for Koch Carbon LLC. After a further six years as Dry Cargo Managing Director at the world’s largest shipping service provider Clarksons, Guy joined The China Navigation Co Pte Ltd, now Swire Bulk Pte Ltd, the deep sea ship owning and operating arm of the Swire Group where he was General Manager (Atlantic) until becoming a full time Arbitrator. His broad shipping career has included broking, chartering, freight and derivative trading and operating.
Guy served as Chairman of the Baltic Exchange’s Freight Market Information Users’ Group in 2005 at a time of migration from OTC derivatives trading toward a modern FFABA contract. The period also saw the introduction of clearing to the FFA market which ultimately enabled the market to survive the disruptions of 2008. He served on the Board of the Baltic Exchange from 2009-2016, eventually as Chairman (2014-2016) Chairing the shareholder sale to SGX in 2016, the most important transition in the Baltic Exchange’s 272 year history.