#SeatruckFerries – Irish Sea freight-only ro-ro operator Seatruck Ferries, whose ship management team have had a busy summer as an important new part of marine law has been rolled out.

The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 or MLC, 2006 is an international labour Convention adopted by the International Labour Organization (ILO). It provides international standards for the world's first genuinely global industry.

Widely known as the "seafarers' bill of rights," the MLC, 2006 was adopted by government, employer and workers representatives at a special ILO International Labour Conference in February 2006.

It is unique in that it aims both to achieve decent work for seafarers and to secure economic interests through fair competition for quality ship owners.

The Convention is comprehensive and sets out, in one place, seafarers' rights to decent working conditions. It covers almost every aspect of their work and life on board.

Seatruck's entire ro-ro fleet has now gained MLC certification recognising the company's on-going commitment to crew welfare.

The freight operator specialises in un-accompanied trailer traffic (i.e no truck drivers) though there is provision for a limited number of cabins.

Seatruck run three services on routes linking Dublin-Liverpool, Dublin-Heysham and Warrenpoint-Heysham.

As previously reported the company earlier this year had a contract to transport accommodation 'Snoozebox' modules on the route to Warrenpoint for use by security personnel during the G8 summit held on the lakes of Fermanagh.

Each week Seatruck sail more than 50 sailings across this route networkoperating a fleet of 12 modern roll-on roll-off freight ferries.

These vessels range in capacity from 65-150 unaccompanied trailers the vessels are not only operated on the Seatruck routes but also available in the open charter market to other users.