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International

ETF update: unions unite over subcontracted workers' rights

  • Telegraph
  • 05 November 2024
Health and safety

Female seafarers: what does personal safety at sea look like to you?

  • News
  • 24 June 2024
International

Celebrating transport heroes: ITF launches global photo competition

  • News
  • 29 May 2024
International

ITF adds two more countries to FOC list, as seafarer abandonment hits new highs

  • News
  • 17 May 2024
International

Maritime industry calls on UN for assistance as attacks on vessels and deaths of seafarers increase

  • News
  • 26 April 2024
Education and training

Fuel training for a Just Transition

  • Telegraph
  • 25 April 2024
Education and training

What is industry doing about new fuels training?

  • Telegraph
  • 25 April 2024
International

Criminalisation: an international issue

  • Telegraph
  • 03 April 2024
International

Ending bullying and harassment for all seafarers

  • Telegraph
  • 15 March 2024
Campaigning

Nautilus resolutions: the pathway to policy

  • Telegraph
  • 11 March 2024
Campaigning

What's the problem with flags of convenience?

  • Telegraph
  • 11 March 2024
Campaigning

Considering cabotage for the Nautilus nations

  • Telegraph
  • 11 March 2024
International

ITF flags 'worrying' increase in abandoned ships

  • News
  • 24 January 2024
Health and safety

Sound guidance for safer crewing

  • Telegraph
  • 11 January 2024
International

ITF campaigns for a Just Transition at COP 28

  • News
  • 06 December 2023
Campaigning

TUC Congress: unanimous support for Nautilus motions

  • News
  • 11 September 2023
Campaigning

Tackle 'Flags of Convenience' and protect domestic shipping

  • News
  • 11 September 2023
International

Unions and employers agree on need for new seafarer 'social contract'

  • News
  • 30 August 2023
Ukraine

Ukrainian seafarers' centre hit in Russian drone attack on grain export port

  • News
  • 03 August 2023
Members at work

Cruise special: Your voice in the global cruise industry

  • Telegraph
  • 23 June 2023
International

ITF to target unsafe shipping by four 'worst' flags

  • News
  • 20 March 2023
Industrial

P&O Ferries boss officially world's worst employer

  • News
  • 01 December 2022
International

What issues are you facing? Tell the ITF

  • News
  • 04 November 2022
Campaigning

P&O Ferries boss Peter Hebblethwaite trashed the once-loved shipowner’s reputation and is an industry disgrace

  • News
  • 03 October 2022
Health and safety

ITF to monitor monkeypox controls on seafarers travelling for work

  • News
  • 08 August 2022
Law

What to look out for when checking your contract

  • Telegraph
  • 21 July 2022
International

Key wins for seafarers at MLC negotiations

  • News
  • 16 May 2022
International

Positives and pitfalls of social partnerships

  • Telegraph
  • 03 May 2022
Environment

'Just transition' for maritime decarbonisation wins support at Singapore Maritime Week

  • News
  • 08 April 2022
Health and safety

ITF sounds the siren of alarm for tugboat workers

  • News
  • 31 March 2022
International

10,000 transport workers call for reinstatement of P&O Ferries seafarers

  • News
  • 30 March 2022
International

Sign petition to support tug workers, ITF urges

  • News
  • 11 March 2022
Ukraine

Transport unions condemn Ukraine invasion

  • News
  • 25 February 2022
International

Counting the cost of piracy

  • Telegraph
  • 21 February 2022
Welfare

Beware: job scams are rife on social media

  • Telegraph
  • 25 January 2022
International

Modern slavery highlighted in fishing industry

  • News
  • 13 January 2022
International

Seafarers abandoned in Kenya face further delays on legal redress and repatriation

  • News
  • 16 December 2021
Community

QVSR giftwraps Christmas joy for seafarers

  • News
  • 14 December 2021
Federation

Panama Canal working conditions has 'the potential to impact international maritime trade' greater than the Ever Given grounding, warns MM&P

  • News
  • 03 December 2021
United Kingdom

Government must act after Welsh university illegally employed and underpaid seafarers

  • News
  • 29 November 2021
International

Combating violence against women transport workers must be a priority, says ETF

  • News
  • 25 November 2021
Environment

New employer-union climate alliance agreed as Global Maritime Forum backs ITF just transition plan

  • News
  • 05 November 2021
Environment

Seafarers are on the frontline of climate change, hears ITF Sustainability Roundtable

  • News
  • 29 October 2021
Environment

Nautilus Champion to speak at ITF sustainability roundtable

  • News
  • 26 October 2021
International

ITF close to 'red listing' a Filipino manning agency over alleged crew rights abuses

  • News
  • 28 September 2021

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