Maritime Rights & Legal Insights
Practical guides, real stories, and legal updates for seafarers and maritime workers worldwide.
Sexual Harassment at Sea: Rights and Reporting Steps for Crew Members
Sexual harassment at sea can affect women, men, and crew members of any gender. It can be committed by a supervisor, coworker, passenger, contractor, officer, or…
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Injured While Working on a Cruise Ship: What Crew Members Should Do
Cruise ship employees work in very different environments. A bartender’s evidence may involve a wet service floor and shift schedule; a housekeeper’s may involve repetitive lifting…
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Cruise Ship Passenger Injury: What to Do and How to Protect Your Claim
A passenger can be injured in a cabin, corridor, restaurant, pool area, theatre, gangway, tender, activity venue, medical centre, or shore excursion. The voyage may end…
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Strait of Hormuz Crisis 2026: What Seafarers Need to Know
The Strait of Hormuz crisis is not only about geopolitics, energy markets, or disrupted trade. For people working aboard vessels in the Persian Gulf, it can…
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What Is Maritime Law and When Does It Apply?
Maritime law is the body of law that governs ships, navigation, seafarers, passengers, cargo, marine commerce, and many incidents connected with the sea. It is also…
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Common Workplace Hazards and Injuries for Seafarers
Work at sea combines heavy physical tasks, moving equipment, confined spaces, changing weather, vessel movement, long hours, and limited access to shoreside medical care. A hazard…
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Who Is Liable for Injuries on a Cruise Ship?
A cruise ship is a floating workplace, hotel, restaurant, entertainment venue, transport system, and medical environment. When someone is injured, the responsible party may not be…
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Crew Member Rights Under ITF Agreements and Collective Bargaining
Seafarers’ rights can come from several sources: national law, the vessel’s flag state, the Maritime Labour Convention, an employment agreement, and a collective bargaining agreement. An…
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Maintenance and Cure for Injured Seafarers: What It Covers
Maintenance and cure is a traditional remedy under United States general maritime law. It can require a seaman’s employer to provide basic living support and necessary…
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David vs. Goliath at Sea: How Injured Crew Members Can Stand Up to Powerful Companies
After an injury at sea, it can feel as though one person is standing against an entire corporation. The company controls the ship, the incident reports,…
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What to Do After an Accident on a Cruise Ship: First Steps for Everyone
An accident on a cruise ship can affect a passenger, crew member, contractor, performer, visitor, or another person onboard. The legal rights of those groups are…
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Help and Support for Crew Members After an Injury at Sea
After an injury at sea, information alone is often not enough. You may be in pain, far from home, uncertain about the diagnosis, worried about wages,…
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12 Main Reasons Seafarers Quit Sea Jobs
Seafaring can offer professional pride, good income, technical responsibility, travel, and long periods of leave between contracts. It can also require months away from home, irregular…
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Cruise Ship Crew Working Hours, Rest and Fatigue
Cruise ships operate every day and night. Restaurants, housekeeping, engineering, navigation, security, entertainment, medical services, and guest operations continue while the vessel is at sea and…
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Universalism in Maritime Law: Why Jurisdiction Still Matters
Shipping crosses borders by design. A vessel may be owned in one country, registered in another, managed from a third, crewed by several nationalities, insured elsewhere,…
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ICR Expands Its European Maritime Legal Network
ICR has expanded its network of maritime legal professionals in Europe. The purpose is practical: maritime cases rarely stay inside one border, and the correct lawyer…
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Jones Act Rights for Injured Seafarers: Who Qualifies and What You Can Claim
The Jones Act gives a qualifying seaman the right to bring a civil action against an employer when employer negligence contributes to an injury suffered in…
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MLC 2006: Seafarers’ Basic Rights Explained
The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006—usually called MLC 2006—sets international minimum standards for many people working at sea. It is often described as a seafarers’ bill of…
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