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19 Apr 2024
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Shipping companies’ lifeline to Myanmar junta demonstrates disdain for human rights
Unions slam shipping giants for sustaining regime, including Maersk’s hollow claim of performing ‘heightened human rights due diligence’Global shipping giants...
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15 Apr 2024
Data analytics in action: how ITF Inspectorate data holds companies responsible for protecting rights in maritime supply chains
Comment article by Seth Payer, Head of Data and Research at the International Transport Workers' FederationThe International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF)...
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18 Mar 2024
Press Release
Seafarers’ lives matter
The International Bargaining Forum’s (IBF) Warlike Operations Area Committee (WOAC) has unanimously agreed to designate the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden ‘Warlike’...
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18 Mar 2024
Mandatory Seafarers' Charter would help prevent another P&O Ferries jobs massacre
Two years ago, trade unionists across the globe reacted in outrage as P&O Ferries illegally sacked 786 UK seafarers, a move that UK unions RMT and Nautilus...
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14 Mar 2024
Charging seafarers for accommodation undermines international law
Underhand business practices targeting seafarers will advance low-cost UK employment modelBusinesses charging seafarers for accommodation on board the ships they...
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14 Mar 2024
Strikes in Finland close ports
On 11 March trade unions in Finland began a wave of strike action which has closed all cargo handling in Finnish ports and halted freight traffic on railways. The...
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07 Mar 2024
Press Release
ITF condemns tragic seafarer deaths in the Gulf of Aden
7 March 2024, London No delivery window is worth the loss of seafarers’ lives. We call on the industry to divert ships around the Cape of Good Hope until safe...
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28 Feb 2024
Saudi ship owner morally bankrupt; Bahrain maritime authorities look the other way
28 February 2024, London Seafarers are struggling to survive after being abandoned by a Saudi Arabian company across multiple vessels – registered in...