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CONVENTION
                 CONCERNING THE SOCIAL REPERCUSSIONS
              OF NEW METHODS OF CARGO HAHDLING IN DOCKS

                         Convention N 137

     The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
     Having been  convened  at  Geneva  by  the  Governing Body of the
International Labour  Office,  and  having  met  in  its  Fifty-eighth
Session on 6 June 1973, and
     Considering that important  changes  have  taken  place  and  are
taking place in cargo-handling methods in docks - such as the adoption
of unit loads, the introduction of roll-on roll-off techniques and the
increase  of  mechanisation  and  automation  -  and in the pattern of
movement of freight, and that such changes are expected to become more
widespread in the future, and
     Considering that such changes,  by speeding up freight movements,
reducing  the  time  spent  by  ships  in ports and lowering transport
costs, may benefit the economy of the country concerned as a whole and
contribute to the raising of the standard of living, and
     Considering that   such   changes   also   involve   considerable
repercussions  on  the  level  of  employment  in  ports  and  on  the
conditions of work and life of dockworkers,  and that measures  should
be  adopted  to  prevent or to reduce the problems consequent thereon,
and
     Considering that  dockworkers should share in the benefit secured
by the introduction  of  new  methods  of  cargo  handling  and  that,
accordingly, action for the lasting improvement of their situation, by
such means  as  regularisation  of  employment  and  stabilisation  of
income,  and  other  measures relating to their conditions of work and
life,  as well as to safety and health aspects of dock work, should be
planned  and  taken concurrently with the planning and introduction of
new methods, and
     Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard
to social repercussions of new  methods  of  cargo  handling  (docks),
which is the fifth item on the agenda of the session, and
     Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of  an
international Convention,  adopts this twenty-fifth day of June of the
year  one  thousand  nine  hundred  and  seventy-three  the  following
Convention, which may be cited as the Dock Work Convention, 1973: