Tag: ITF

The IMO's Legal Committee reported an alarming rise in the number of seafarer abandonment cases since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ITF published a new web tool to help seafarers looking for jobs through the maze of slippery manning agents and cunning scammers.

The ITF is calling for the immediate release and repatriation of the MV Wakashio crew who have been held by Mauritian authorities now for over a year.

The ITF has helped to recover pay owed to Filipino crew aboard the Liberian-registered bulk carrier Dory while repatriated four crew members.

Seafarers’ unions recently welcomed the release of the MV Ever Given which was under detention in the Suez Canal by Egyptian authorities.

Captain Vehbi Kara was allowed to return home to Turkey last week having been stuk in the port of Adabiya, Suez for more than a year.

Shipowners should stop crew changes in northern Mozambique as seafarers are at risk of attack or kidnapping by violent terrorist groups operating in the region, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) said, joining calls by the Norwegian Maritime Unions (NMU) for a crew change suspension until the threat reduces in the area.

In light of the Day of the Seafarer on 25th June, International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) released a video urging for a fair future for the world’s seafarers.

Crew abandonments continue to be a major issue in shipping with the number of vessels listed on the international abandonment database rising from 34 in 2018, to 40 in 2019, to a record high of 85 in 2020, ITF reported.

Hundreds of lives will be saved thanks to two new emergency projects being funded by the ITF Seafarers’ Trust and delivered through two Indian-based seafarers’ unions.