Some flag states are failing to submit the required reports on maritime casualties, said shipowners and maritime unions in a joint submission to the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
ITF Australia coordinator Dean Summers has warned of potential environmental damage in Melbourne, Australia due to an unsafe vessel inspected in the port.
Trade unions in some 100 countries are planning rallies, protests, educational activities and other events to commemorate Workers’ Memorial Day on 28 April.
The ITF and its maritime affiliates will be supporting this year's ‘Day of the Seafarer' on 25 June.
The ITF and several other organisations are sponsoring a new charity event on 12-15 July to benefit seafarers in the United States.
A high level trade union delegation from several countries will gather in the small Swiss town of Châtel-St-Denis tomorrow, 26 September, in order to question the behaviour of a global company headquartered there.
Members of the press are invited to attend the public handing over of a letter of protest next Thursday 26 September at the headquarters of Swiss-based offshore pipeline installation and subsea construction company Allseas Group SA.
The ITF has called for the democratic electoral processes in Venezuela to be respected, following the ‘welcome’ election on 14 April of Nicholas Maduro Moros, former leader of the ITF affiliated SITRAMECA trade union.
The ITF Seafarers Trust and the Maritime Piracy Humanitarian Response Programme (MPHRP) hosted a packed press screening of the film A Hijacking, which they describe as possibly “the first genuinely realistic portrayal of the sheer horror and brutality inflicted on the victims of pirate attacks”.
On 3 December 2018, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) convened the 100th session of Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) – first held in 1948. To mark the...
