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An ITF inspector has stepped in to help the crew of a ship docked at Bromborough, UK, despite the maritime authorities being unable to take action.

The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) and European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF) have extended their deepest condolences to the family of a seafarer killed in Dublin, Ireland, while lashing and securing containers, and said this case proves how vital it is that this kind of work is done by dock workers, not seafarers.

The ITF has contributed to a trade union advisory committee (TUAC) roundtable at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France, focused on the role of due diligence, social dialogue and corporate accountability mechanisms.

International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) general secretary Stephen Cotton, and a delegation of ITF unions, is at a regional meeting in Manila, the Philippines, of Asia’s leading seafaring nations that has agreed the first ‘Manila statement on the fair treatment of seafarers’.

In Sydney today union members from Hutchison ports in Indonesia, Pakistan and Australia joined forces to form a regional safety committee.

Stephen Cotton and Paddy Crumlin have been re-elected to lead the ITF for another five years.