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The ITF’s campaign on Flags of Convenience takes major step forward with new standard for international seafarers’ rights and working conditions. The ‘ Marrakech Policy ’, adopted today at the

Unions have secured an important victory in the campaign for seafarers’ safety this week as a Dutch court has ruled that ship managers, ship owners and charterers must honour a clause that prevents

While the Court of Rotterdam’s decision today in the Netherlands is disappointing, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and the

Via the press the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) [and its affiliates] has heard about a complaint filed with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition by

This week marks a year since Ravindu Telge, 2 nd Officer of the Maersk Patras, fell overboard while lashing underway along the Saint Lawrence Seaway, in Quebec, Canada. Securing and unsecuring

Industry mover and shaker Container News has exposed unsafe lashing practices endangering seafarers’ lives.