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26 Jul 2021
Press Release
Vaccination of seafarers
The International Maritime Employers Council (IMEC) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) have since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic...
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22 Jul 2021
Press Release
Maritime courts must put crew welfare first in abandonment cases
Seafarers trapped on the MV Angelic Power (IMO 9250189) since July last year have now been repatriated, following a lengthy battle in the Chinese courts. ITF...
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07 Jul 2021
Press Release
Seafarers’ unions welcome Ever Given release
Seafarers’ unions today welcomed the release of the MV Ever Given (IMO: 9811000) from detention in the Suez Canal by Egyptian authorities, but warned that...
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06 Jul 2021
Press Release
Free at last — but Egypt must change how it treats abandoned seafarers like Captain Kara
Captain Vehbi Kara was allowed to return home to Turkey last week having been trapped in the port of Adabiya, Suez for more than a year as the latest seafarer...
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30 Jun 2021
LGBT+ transport workers need solidarity, not ‘rainbow capitalism’
Attitudes to sexual orientation and gender identity have changed for the better all over the world in the last two decades, towards openness and acceptance. For the...
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28 Jun 2021
Press Release
Terror threat makes seafarer crew change impossible in northern Mozambique
Ship owners should stop attempting to perform crew changes in northern Mozambique while seafarers are at risk of attack or kidnapping by violent terrorist groups...
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25 Jun 2021
Press Release
Day of the Seafarer is meaningless without vaccines and our rights restored
Today is Day of the Seafarer and this year's theme is ‘a future fair for seafarers’. But there is little point contemplating what a fair...
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16 Jun 2021
Press Release
ITF wins freedom for hunger-striking seafarers after two years trapped on the ULA
Nineteen seafarers from India, Bangladesh, Turkey and Azerbaijan will be able to see their families again this week after the ITF’s advocacy brought their...