The world celebrated Day of the Seafarer on Saturday 25 June, with a collective mix of memories and tales of life at sea. For 2022, the campaign of the Day of the Seafarer, with the theme 'Your ...
World Celebrates Day of the Seafarer
Record all enclosed space deaths urges SRI Advisory Board Member Kuba Szymanski, as two more workers die
As two more workers die in an enclosed space on board a ship, InterManager has hit out at the shipping industry’s inadequate reporting of serious and fatal accidents. Captain Kuba Szymanski, SRI ...
Global shipowner group and seafarers’ unions agree new three-year global minimum wage ‘safety net’ deal
The UN International Labour Organization (ILO) once again convened the latest bipartite round of negotiations between shipowners and seafarers’ unions from across the world, coordinated by the ...
Seafarers win commitment to mandatory internet access in international law
Seafarers’ groups have won the right to mandatory social connectivity for crews –including internet access – in updates to the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC). The latest Special Tripartite ...
Taskforce for Fair Green Transition Adds Strength
The Maritime Just Transition Task Force has announced that the Singapore Maritime Foundation has become its first public programme partner. The announcement was made at an event during Singapore ...
Seafarers unions issue joint statement on P&O ferries sacking
Seafarer unions ITF (International Transport Workers Union), ETF (European Transport Workers Federation), Nautilus International and the RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers) ...
ITF and ETF condemn P&O mass sacking and outsourcing
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) are calling on DP World to engage in meaningful dialogue with affiliates RMT and Nautilus ...
Russian and Ukrainian seafarers make up 14.5% of global shipping workforce
According to the Seafarer Workforce Report, published by BIMCO and ICS, there are 1.89 million seafarers currently operating over 74,000 vessels in the global merchant fleet. Of this total workforce, ...
Reporting on seafarer wellbeing a casualty of the pandemic
A new industry publication has identified reporting on seafarer wellbeing as a “casualty of the pandemic,” following its publication this week. The annual Shipping Industry Flag State Performance ...
UN agencies and other international organizations establish Joint Action Group to protect transport workers and secure supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic
GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), together with other international organizations in the transport sector, have set up a Joint ...
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