health and safety

Join the International Safe Rates Summit (30 June - 1 July): let’s save lives and improve pay and conditions across road transport.

Hundreds of lives will be saved thanks to two new emergency projects being funded by the ITF Seafarers’ Trust and delivered through two Indian-based seafarers’ unions. The support from the ITF

Confidence in the safety of transport is vital for our economic recovery, argues Paddy Crumlin, President of the International Transport Workers’ Federation. Yet too many countries are ignoring WHO advice to prioritise transport workers for Covid-19 vaccination.

Fijian authorities are being called to urgently investigate Goundar’s MV Lomaiviti Princess III amid allegations of falsified safety documentation and concerns over passenger and maritime worker

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has issued a stark warning that if temporary short cuts adopted in the industry during the Covid-19 pandemic continue or become permanent, then

This week marks a year since Ravindu Telge, 2 nd Officer of the Maersk Patras, fell overboard while lashing underway along the Saint Lawrence Seaway, in Quebec, Canada. Securing and unsecuring

In the midst of a crewing crisis in the shipping industry, the ITF today expressed its profound regret at the reported suicide of a young female seafarer on board Regal Princess and the death of a young Chinese man on board the Mariner of the Seas.

The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the global seafaring community to numerous challenges. Maritime employers and seafarers' unions, along with many other international organisations, are working