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01 Jul 2020
Governments must protect trapped seafarers' human rights
As the Covid-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions put in place to attempt containment drag on, around 200,000 merchant seafarers are trapped aboard ships in...
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02 Jul 2020
ITF working to get Ukrainian seafarers’ wages back, repatriation from São Sebastião, Brazil
There’s 11,086 kilometres between São Sebastião, Brazil and the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv. It’s those eleven thousand kilometres ITF Inspector Renialdo de...
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02 Jul 2020
Press Release
Crew of Global Cruise Vessels to return home from UK
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has been assisting hundreds of seafarers aboard the six Global Cruise Lines’ vessels currently in Tilbury...
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07 Jul 2020
Open message from major labour providing unions affiliated to the ITF to global seafarers and the international community
The race to develop a Covid-19 response that controls the virus, protects people and provides relief for battered economies is an urgent priority. However, as...
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07 Jul 2020
Press Release
ITF affiliates stand for crew change
Seafarers in their unions are putting more pressure on the world’s governments to allow for crew changes, as more than 200,000 seafarers are now trapped aboard...
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07 Jul 2020
Mauritian seafarers faced with fines, cockroaches in ordeal to get home
The Mauritian government recently announced it would finally open its doors to the thousands of its own seafarers trapped around the world – but only by a slight...
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09 Jul 2020
Press Release
ITF calls out Berejiklian Government's “smokescreen” Ruby Princess inquiry
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) today branded the New South Wales Government’s inquiry into the Ruby Princess as a ‘smokescreen’ for...
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09 Jul 2020
Press Release
Governments must bring in exemptions for seafarers following summit
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has called on the world’s governments to act swiftly to give seafarers visa, border and quarantine...