Press Releases

The campaign to highlight the experiences of seafarers during the Covid pandemic has taken a leap forward this Day of the Seafarer as the winner of the ITF Seafarers’ Trust portrait competition is...

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...

Today the ITFST launches its second photography competition to highlight the vital work of seafarers, the invisible workforce powering global trade. Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind calls on seafarers to...

The National Maritime Museum is partnering with the ITF Seafarers’ Trust and Mission to Seafarers, to record oral histories of seafarers who have been unable to dock in ports across the globe because...

Event date: Friday 5 March 2021 Time: 14:00 GMT Registration: Click here The risks of exhaustion at sea and the widespread abuse of Hours of Work and Rest will be discussed by a high-profile panel of...

New research from a team at the World Maritime University (WMU) underlines systemic failures in the implementation of the regulatory regime for seafarers’ hours of work and rest, undermining the...