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News | 19 Apr 2024 Press Release

Shipping companies’ lifeline to Myanmar junta demonstrates disdain for human rights

Unions slam shipping giants for sustaining regime, including Maersk’s hollow claim of performing ‘heightened human rights due diligence’Global shipping giants...

News | 15 Apr 2024

Data analytics in action: how ITF Inspectorate data holds companies responsible for protecting rights in maritime supply chains

Comment article by Seth Payer, Head of Data and Research at the International Transport Workers' FederationThe International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF)...

News | 18 Mar 2024 Press Release

Seafarers’ lives matter

The International Bargaining Forum’s (IBF) Warlike Operations Area Committee (WOAC) has unanimously agreed to designate the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden ‘Warlike’...

News | 18 Mar 2024

Mandatory Seafarers' Charter would help prevent another P&O Ferries jobs massacre

Two years ago, trade unionists across the globe reacted in outrage as P&O Ferries illegally sacked 786 UK seafarers, a move that UK unions RMT and Nautilus...

News | 14 Mar 2024

Charging seafarers for accommodation undermines international law

Underhand business practices targeting seafarers will advance low-cost UK employment model.Businesses charging seafarers for accommodation on board the ships they...

News | 14 Mar 2024

Strikes in Finland close ports

On 11 March trade unions in Finland began a wave of strike action which has closed all cargo handling in Finnish ports and halted freight traffic on railways. The...

News | 07 Mar 2024 Press Release

ITF condemns tragic seafarer deaths in the Gulf of Aden

7 March 2024, London No delivery window is worth the loss of seafarers’ lives. We call on the industry to divert ships around the Cape of Good Hope until safe...

News | 28 Feb 2024

Saudi ship owner morally bankrupt; Bahrain maritime authorities look the other way

28 February 2024, London Seafarers are struggling to survive after being abandoned by a Saudi Arabian company across multiple vessels – registered in...