Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976 is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1976, with the preamble stating: Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to substandard vessels, particularly those registered under flags of convenience, ...Protocol of 1996 to the Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976 Having determined that these proposals should take the form of a Protocol to the principal Convention; adopts, this twenty-second day of October one thousand nine hundred and ninety-six, the following Protocol, which may be cited as the Protocol of 1996 to the Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976.
Of these ratifying states, 45 have subsequently denounced the convention.
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