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15 Mar 2022
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Pandemic delivers Maersk record profit, but shipping giant is leaving tug workers behind
15 March 2022, Copenhagen Record profits being announced today by AP Moller-Maersk risk not being shared fairly with workers who delivered the company its...
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07 Mar 2022
International Women's Day 2022: ITF launches Sanitation Rights Toolkit
On International Women’s Day 2022, we are excited to announce the launch of our Sanitation Rights Toolkit. #IWD2022 The toolkit contains resources for transport...
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03 Mar 2022
Seafarer goes home after months abandoned alone on a ship at Tawfiq port in Egypt
A seafarer was trapped alone on his ship without food or electricity for months, and no-one would help until the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF)...
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02 Mar 2022
Press Release
Dubai police must allow ship’s captain home if they are to meet human rights obligations
The Dubai police have still not allowed the captain of MV Ocean Trader (IMO 9056739) to return home after seven months, despite the UAE’s improved position on...
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10 Feb 2022
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UAE transport authority takes tough action over ship manager withholding seafarer wages
Twelve seafarers who have not been paid for more than nine months have been given a boost as the UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure fined the ship’s...
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08 Feb 2022
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Turkish authorities’ seven-month delay in Ukrainian seafarers’ drug import case ‘totally unacceptable’: ITF
Seafarers’ unions are extremely concerned that four Ukrainian nationals have now been detained without charge by Turkish authorities for more than seven months....
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07 Feb 2022
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Tanker crew ‘rescued’ from slave-like conditions after Panama refuses to act
Ten seafarers from Aframax oil tanker Wind (IMO: 9252967) have been freed from slave-like conditions only after the International Transport Workers’ Federation...
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30 Jan 2022
Press Release
Svitzer termination bid could risk Australian supply chains, harm Maersk reputation
An application by A.P. Møller–Mærsk’s towage subsidiary, Svitzer, to terminate its collective agreement with its entire Australian workforce could further...