The "New Trends in Maritime Law" Book is result of the IX ECLMR held at Bilbao on September 2016. In this conference, the MWW participated in quality of Co-director of the event and also presenting a panel related to Seafarers' protection in the event of the maritime employers' insolvency. Related to this issue, in this publication there are four essays in which the authors analyse public and private insurance of the seafarers’wage guarantee; monitoring by the port state of the amendments to theMLC 2006 relating to abandonment; workers’ protection in the event of the maritime employer’s insolvency and the limited role of wage claims as maritime liens; and the relevance in this regard of the CJEU’s interpretation on the Stroumpoulis case of February 2016.
