Participants from ITF affiliated unions from Lebanon, Oman, Iraq and Yemen attended a training and education seminar in Beirut on the 17-18 of June, following the first training session held in Tangiers in February.
There were events to celebrate the International Day of the Seafarer, 25 June, throughout the world.
Eight migrants drown off Turkey
A Portuguese shipping management company has pleaded guilty in Charleston, South Carolina to a pollution cover-up and has agreed to pay a fine of USD1.5 million.
As has been widely reported, Captain Rackete was taken into custody after carrying 40 migrants and refugees that she had rescued off Libya into the Italian Port of Lampedusa, despite attempts by the Italian Coastguard to block the rescue boat from entering the port.
A court in Sicily has freed the German captain of a rescue boat who was arrested after she landed migrants and refugees rescued from the Mediterranean in the Italian island of Lampedusa. The landing was against current Italian government policy.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has launched a video to promote the maritime industry as a career for women.
The second Europe-Asia Maritime Summit met in Odessa, Ukraine in early June. Initiated by the Marine Transport Workers’ Trade Union of Ukraine (MTWTU), the meeting is a platform to promote Ukrainian seafarers and Ukraine to a wide range of potential employers.
Civilian workers for the British Royal Navy are taking industrial action over their pay. Nearly 700 workers at the Royal Navy’s Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA), which supports the navy’s global logistical operations, are taking the action following a “derisory” 1.5 percent pay rise.
