Tag: ETF

The European Transport Workers Federation released a statement regarding sea rescue operations. ETF highlights that casualties in the Mediterranean have been extremely high since 2014 and presents its demands to improve this situation. ETF also noted that it resists any attempt to criminalise masters and crew of ships involved in rescue operations.

As part of their combined efforts to increase the participation of women in careers in the European shipping industry, the European Transport Workers Federation (ETF) and the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) announced what their shared priorities and joint actions will be to address the issue.

The European Social Partners for the maritime sector, including the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) stressed potential Brexit implications, related to the possible preclusion of seafarers who hold Certificates of Competency (CoCs) issued in the UK under STCW.

European Commission publicly announced its plan of co-financing the project "SkillSea, Futureproof Skills for the Maritime transport sector" in a ceremony. The project aspires to develop a pattern on identifying and meeting the future skills needs of maritime sector and to also lure Europeans to work in maritime industries. 

On Tuesday 4 and Wednesday 5 September 2018 more than 45 participants from Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Bulgaria met in Saint Petersbourg, Russia, to discuss “automation in European Inland Waterways”.

The European Transport Workers Association and its affiliated organisations across Europe published guidelines to improve the decision-making process ahead of new technologies and steer it to the benefit of maritime safety, the environmental performance of shipping, and to the benefit of maritime professionals.

The European Transport Workers Federation and the European Community Shipowners’ Associations have discussed possible solutions to increase women’s participation in the shipping industry in Europe. Today, women amount for 2% of the seafaring workforce available for the EU fleet.

The European and International Social Partners in the Maritime Sector; the European Community Shipowners’ Associations, the European Transport Workers’ Federation, the International Chamber of Shipping and the International Transport Workers Federation welcomed the current efforts to enable seafarers travel to and from the EU, with new amendments to the visa rules between Member States.

The new rules oblige shipowners to provide financial security to protect seafarers from abandonment in an overseas port. Additionally, the new agreement ensures the payment of contractual compensation in the event of the death or long-term disability of a seafarer resulting from an occupational injury, illness or hazard.

European shipowners and the European Transport Workers’ Federation highlighted the need of easing the administrative burden shipping crew and companies are facing today, on the sidelines of the Digital Transport Days in Tallinn.