REGULATORY WATCHMoving Ahead with MLC: the true course to compliance.By Joseph Keefehe Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) impacts January 2013. As with any new protocol, he said, ships and the world’s 1.3 million mariners in one way or another. their operators get better at compliance with practice. MLC TIn a nutshell, MLC embraces fundamental principles has been no different.found in other international labor conventions and applies to In all cases, the process involves looking at how an operator all ships entering member port states, as well as to all