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The last group of five Indian seafarers left the ship last week en route to Mumbai. Another eight seafarers were paid and repatriated on 26 February, following the payment and return home of the two Turkish crew members also last month.

ITF president & chair of the dockers’ section Paddy Crumlin said: “This just shows the power of the dockers in Spain and I congratulate them for making the government back down.

Member states at the UNCSW61 (13-24 March) are currently negotiating the agreed conclusions on the priority theme, ‘Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work’.

The reclaiming lashing campaign is run by member unions of the ITF and its European arm the ETF, and is supported by the two federations.

The groundbreaking agreement is the result of two years’ hard efforts by the FNTT and Mohamed Arrachedi, ITF Arab world network co-ordination. It covers the vessels Cheikh el Mokrani, Cheikh Bouamama and the Lalla Fatma N’Soumer, which are Algerian owned and fly the Bahamas flag.

The union members were at the event to deliver a progress report on the continuing dialogue between the company and unions established by the ITF’s Maersk Network, which was set up to best represent the thousands of transport workers employed across the company (see

Fagforeningen deltog i arrangementet for at levere en statusrapport om den løbende dialog mellem virksomheden og fagforeningen, der er fastlagt ved ITF's Maersk Network, som blev dannet for på bedste vis at repræsentere de tusindvis af transportarbejdere, der er ansat i hele virksomheden (se

The move is the latest by the ITF in support of the crew of the vessel, which has been effectively abandoned in Aberdeen, Scotland by its owners, and detained by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency at the federation’s request (see https://goo.gl/ddzOFU).

The complaint has been lodged by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) on behalf of the Toamasina Port workers and their union SYGMMA.