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Pioneering pact agreed between the ITF and Nigeria’s maritime safety agency.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has signed a landmark deal in Lagos which supports the mental wellbeing of seafarers in Nigeria.  

The agreement, signed with the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) is the first partnership of its kind between the ITF...


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The ITF Executive Board stands unequivocally with seafarer Ali Albokhari and his family and calls for his immediate release.

The criminalization of seafarers is a growing and deeply troubling problem. Seafarers must not become convenient scapegoats for criminal activity they did not commit, know about or control.

Ali has spent three years imprisoned in T...


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The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is deeply saddened by the passing of Kenneth Bondas, former President of the Finnish Seafarers’ Union (FSU). 

Kenneth, a father of four, died at the end of September at the age of 65. He had retired only two years earlier after devoting more than three decades to representing seafarers. 

Kenneth’s...


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On World Mental Health Day, the ITF launches a campaign to bring wellbeing conversations into ship visits and press for stronger protections for seafarers and their families. 

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is launching Mind At Sea, a global mental health and suicide prevention campaign to help seafarers access support and make their wellbeing a routine ...


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ITF affiliates the Panhellenic Seamen's Federation (PNO) and the Cypriot Federation of Transport, Petroleum and Agricultural Workers (OMEPEGE/FTPAW-SEK) brought unions, governments and shipowners together in Athens on Friday to mark 20 years of the Maritime Labour Convention – and to set out what the industry must now do to strengthen it. 

ITF General Secretary <...


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