Tripartite Meeting of Experts for the Review and Adoption of ILO Guidelines on Training in the Port Sector

The Tripartite Meeting of Experts for the Review and the Adoption of ILO Guidelines on Training in the Port Sector was held in Geneva from 21 to 25 November 2011 in accordance with a Governing Body decision taken at its 304th Session (March 2009).

The purpose of the Meeting was to review and adopt ILO Guidelines on training in the port sector.

The Meeting was attended by 23 experts from Governments, seven experts from the Employers’ group of the Governing Body, and nine experts from the Workers’ group of the Governing Body. There were four observers from intergovernmental organizations and international non-governmental organizations.

The Meeting had before it draft ILO Guidelines on training in the port sector, prepared by the Office with the support of an informal tripartite working group comprised of experts from port operators, portworker unions, governments, relevant intergovernmental and international non-governmental organizations, port training centres, other specialized institutions and individual specialists. The Guidelines would provide a competency-based framework for portworker training methods.

The ILO Guidelines on training in the port sector were adopted as amended by the Meeting of Experts.