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The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) Cabotage Taskforce has condemned as ‘unbelivable’ fines requested by Australia’s Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) against crew members of the MV Portland.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) Cabotage Taskforce, which is meeting in Oslo, Norway, today applauded the United States Department of Justice’s announcement that the company Furie Operating Alaska LLC has agreed to pay USD10 million ‘to satisfy a civil penalty originally assessed against it by US Customs and Border Protection for violating the Jones Act,’ America’s freight cabotage law.

The first network of HIV-positive seafarers has been launched in the Philippines, with technical and financial support from the ITF and its union AMOSUP.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) Cabotage Taskforce, which consists of unions from Canada, Norway, Brazil, Greece, Russia, Ukraine, USA, Nigeria, Australia, the Philippines and India, today blasted Australia’s Productivity Commission as entirely missing the point of having a national shipping fleet.

Young transport workers took to social media to share news and highlights from the ITF youth conference around the globe, making the event a stunning success both inside and outside the venue.

Young transport workers took to social media to share news and highlights from the ITF youth conference around the globe, making the event a stunning success both inside and outside the venue.

ITF unions in the Our Public Transport (OPT) programme have laid the foundations for an alternative public transport policy that works for workers as well as passengers.

The Government of Madagascar faces an International Labour Organization (ILO) complaint over its treatment of 43 dockworkers who were sacked for joining a union.