ITF helps Philippine, Turkish crews fly home via Brazil
Eight seafarers return to the Philippines after more than a year at sea The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) intervened to ensure a seafarer...
Companies must take crew change opportunities in the UK and elsewhere - ITF
The repatriation of seven Myanmar crew members from a Korean-owned vessel via the United Kingdom shows that crew change is still possible during the crew change...
Stranded at Sea: ITF addressing abandonment in the Arab World
A growing number of crew abandoned on ships in the Arab World without pay, food or water are receiving assistance from the ITF Arab World and Iran Network to...
SG-STAR Fund: First global tripartite initiative to support countries for crew change
Joint release from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), International Maritime Employers' Council (IMEC), International Chamber of Shipping...
Covid corner-cutting will lead to deaths, ‘environmental catastrophe’ – new shipping report
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has issued a stark warning that if temporary short cuts adopted in the industry during the Covid-19 pandemic...
Crew change crisis risks becoming forced labour epidemic as tragedy hits six-month mark on World Maritime Day
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has slammed government inaction to alleviate the crew change crisis, declaring that current Covid-19 border...
Beyond the limit of safe shipping - ITF General Secretary’s UN address
The ITF and our affiliates have been striving for practical crew change solutions from the outset of the global pandemic, when governments implemented protective...
“Help us. No food. No salary”: Abandoned Vietnamese seafarers finally home with union support
It was an image that shocked many. A ship with the desperate scrawls of a desperate crew scribbled across the hull of what had become their floating prison, as the...