Updates from around the globe on the ITF’s work to build a fairer, safer and more just world for seafarers. Our news section covers issues affecting all seafarers, wherever they may be, and what we’re doing to improve seafarers’ lives and jobs, now and in the future.
Seafarers’ unions today challenged governments, particularly those with maritime responsibilities, to endorse universal access to Covid-19 vaccines to prevent the crew change crisis from spiraling
The world’s transport unions today have demanded that governments across the world support waiving intellectual property rights at the World Trade Organ
Israel must immediately stop attacks on Palestinian territories which have already killed hundreds of innocent people, including children, said the Intern
The ITF condemns all acts of violence committed against children and civilians in Palestine.
Shipowners and seafarers’ representatives have asked the United Nations to establish an interagency task force to examine th
The world’s seafarers’ unions say the world’s biggest brands have no excuse not to audit their supply chains and issue directives t
May Day is when workers of the world stop and reflect.
The world’s seafarers yesterday took the extraordinary decision to shut down negotiations over the future of seafarers’ minimum wag
Seafarer Mohammad Aisha
Representatives of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) Sunday boarded the MV Ever Given (IMO:
Maritime employers in the International Bargaining Forum (IBF) have argued for and secured a second deferral of IBF ‘cost negotiations’ to the disappointment of
Fijian authorities are being called to urgently investigate Goundar’s
