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17 Jun 2019
'Anywhere there are transport workers, we'll be there'
Despite the name, the National Union of Seafarers Sri Lanka (NUSS) is not just for seafarers. Since 2018 the NUSS has been organising informal dockworkers and...
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22 Jun 2019
ITF hails historic convention
The first ever international standard on violence and harassment in the world of work has been adopted at the centenary International Labour Conference (ILC) of the...
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28 Jun 2019
ITF mobilising Arab World unions to respond to seafarers under threat from unscrupulous shipowners
Participants from ITF affiliated unions from Lebanon, Oman, Iraq and Yemen attended a training and education seminar in Beirut on the 17-18 of June, following the...
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28 Jun 2019
Day of the Seafarer celebrated worldwide
There were events to celebrate the International Day of the Seafarer, 25 June, throughout the world. This year’s event, organised by the International Maritime...
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28 Jun 2019
Sea migrants continue to risk death, rejection and deportation
Eight migrants drown off Turkey Eight migrants and refugees drowned off the coast of Turkey as their small boat sank attempting to reach the Greek islands. The...
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28 Jun 2019
Portuguese company to pay US $1.5m fine for pollution cover-up
A Portuguese shipping management company has pleaded guilty in Charleston, South Carolina to a pollution cover-up and has agreed to pay a fine of USD1.5...
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03 Jul 2019
Italian judge orders release of captain who docked migrant-rescue ship
As has been widely reported, Captain Rackete was taken into custody after carrying 40 migrants and refugees that she had rescued off Libya into the Italian Port of...
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05 Jul 2019
Italian court frees rescue boat captain
A court in Sicily has freed the German captain of a rescue boat who was arrested after she landed migrants and refugees rescued from the Mediterranean in the...