All content tagged with: "crew change crisis"
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16 Jul 2020
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300,000 Seafarers Trapped at Sea: Mounting crew change crisis demands faster action from governments
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) estimates that there are now approximately 300,000 seafarers trapped working aboard ships due to the crew...
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16 Jul 2020
Mounting crew change crisis demands faster action from governments
ITF Statement on Crew Change Crisis – 16 July 2020 Today marks one month since the ITF told the world’s governments that ‘Enough is Enough’ and that the...
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15 Jul 2020
ITF helps global seafarers repatriate via Spain
Philippines crew from tanker Giancarlo D return home For the crew of chemical tanker Giancarlo D, Luz Baz and the ITF are a godsend. Luz is the ITF...
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15 Jul 2020
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Australian maritime regulator silent on crew change crisis
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) says the Australian federal government has been asleep at the...
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09 Jul 2020
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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...
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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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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
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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02 Jul 2020
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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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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...