About This Site

The MLC2006 Website

ADDING COMMENTS

This News and Views section of this website allows you to leave comments, pose questions etc.. In the interest of ensuring that all comments are correct they need to be approved before they are published to the site. We aim to do this within 24 hours.

STANDARDS COMPLIANCE

This website aims to conform to:

If you do come across any kind of code errors, feel free to bring it to our attention by emailing   

BROWSER COMPATIBILITY

This website has been tested to offer full functionality on Windows, Macintosh and Linux with:

  • Firefox 1.5, 2 & 3
  • Internet Explorer 6, 7
  • Safari 2 & 3
  • Google Chrome
  • Opera 8 & 9

DESIGN

  • All pages have been designed around our user’s requirements and common user tasks.
  • The pages on this website are all print-friendly – only the Videotel logo and main body text will be printed when you print from your browser
  • Structure and presentation have been completely separated to aid accessibility. The HTML documents contain just the text on the screen and some structural tags.
  • All pages are designed using CSS - no tables have been used to aid the design of this website
  • For people using screen readers and/or no style sheets, you have the option to skip to the main navigation, content and site text search
  • All text is set as relative font sizes - this means that users can resize the text through a browser
  • All informational images have been assigned descriptive ALT text and decorative images are either sourced from the CSS document or have a null ALT attribute

We aim to make this website a pleasant browsing experience and accessible for our users. If you experience any problems or have any feedback, please email

RESIZING THE TEXT

To increase the text size:

  • Internet Explorer: View > Text size
  • Firefox: View > Text size
  • Opera: File > Preferences > Fonts > Minimum font size (pixels)

Alternatively, scroll with the wheel of your mouse whilst holding down the control key.

JAVASCRIPT

Where JavaScript is used, best practice is applied to avoid problems with functionality. We have only used unobtrusive JavaScript so that webpages degrade gracefully if Javascript is not switched on.

Videotel Academy Tutor Led Course

A course for shipping company managers, ships’ Masters, manning agents, and employees of Member states - port State control inspectors and officials of flag States and labour supply countries.

The course provides:

 

  • Real time virtual classroom tutorial
  • Tutor support throughout
  • Detailed understanding of the Convention for the user
  •  Guidance on compliance for the user’s organisation or ship
  • Current compliance status
  • Action plan

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DVD Programme

A short training programme for small groups of shipping company managers, seafarers, manning agents, port State control inspectors and officials of flag States and labour supply countries.
The programme provides an outline of the Convention and an opportunity to discuss what it might mean for users’ organisations.

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Conventions

Read the full text of the Convention or access the part you need.