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In his New Year's message the ITF's President Paddy Crumlin recognises ITF successes in 2016 and vows to fight inequality, fear and intolerance in 2017.

Workers and concerned citizens will be rallying in Montreal, Toronto, Prince Rupert, Victoria and Vancouver in defence of maritime cabotage, which helps safeguard jobs in national trade.

ITF inspector Mohamed Arrachedi has raised the alarm over the case of the Panama-flagged, Turkish-owned Seahonest (IMO 9142100) whose crew has been stranded unpaid and unprovisioned in the Port of Algiers for seven months.

ITF president Paddy Crumlin said: “From tomorrow the mechanisms will be in place for a huge change that will finally treat the running sore of crew abandonment. At last the fundamental idea that those who send seafarers to sea have a responsibility for them is enshrined in regulation.”

The workers’ union, Unite the Union, has been trying to raise the issue for over a year and said it had received no response to its letter to Peel Ports on 6 December.

A record 300 delegates from across France participated in the 11th congress of the Federation of Equipment, Environment, Transport and Services FORCE OUVRIERE (FEETS-FO) from January 31 to February 2.

ITF seafarers’ section chair David Heindel stated: “This is an urgent and dangerous affair for these seafarers, and a deeply worrying time for their families. It requires a speedy response.

The system to give migrant workers legal status and protect their rights was introduced in early 2016 after a collaboration between the ITF and a number of media agencies exposed the extent of exploitation in the Irish fishing industry.

Over 200 participants from across the region will meet in Tunis from 13-16 February – the conference kicks off with a day focused on building strategy for increased engagement of women workers and young transport workers in union activity in the Arab World.