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14 Dec 2022
Press Release
Shipping industry, unions welcome action from President Marcos Jr on key seafarer issues
JOINT ITF-ICS-IMEC MEDIA RELEASE Yesterday, global leaders from organisations representing seafarers, shipowners and other maritime employers, met with His...
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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...
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07 Feb 2022
Press Release
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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08 Feb 2022
Press Release
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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25 Jun 2020
ITF Statement on ‘Day of the Seafarer’ 2020
Today is the ‘Day of the Seafarer’ a day when we should celebrate seafarers, but this year, as world’s seafarers are let down by governments there is little...
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10 Feb 2022
Press Release
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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19 Dec 2022
'Abandoned' livestock carrier ship to be auctioned in Victoria but stranded crew yet to receive wages
An international livestock carrier ship, the Yangtze Fortune, has been arrested in Portland, Victoria by the Australian Federal Court. In the meantime, the...
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25 Jun 2020
Their story: the hunger striking seafarers at Tilbury trying to get home
Four months without pay and 48 hours without food, 47 seafarers off the coast of the UK are desperate to get home to their families. The mainly Indian crew are...