The maritime industry faces an urgent challenge: the increasing criminalisation and unjust treatment of seafarers. Despite being vital to global trade, seafarers often face unjust criminal…

Seafarers around the world will receive a two-year, 5% pay rise after negotiations at the International Bargaining Forum (IBF) in Singapore last month. The pay award will be implemented through…

New figures released by the ITF reveal that vessel abandonments have surged nearly 33% year on year.By May this year, 158 cases of vessel abandonment had been recorded, up from 119 at the same point…

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) condemns Argentine President Javier Milei’s new “Exceptional Regime for the National Merchant Marine” as a reckless act of deregulation that…

Shipping companies, financiers and governments across the world urged to cut ties with sham union, ISU-Lanibra. The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is sounding the alarm on a…