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Seafarers forced to spend up to 18 months on ships, ITF says

Tue, 10/20/2020 - 18:04 — helmsman

Seafarers forced to spend up to 18 months on ships, International Transport Workers' Federation says
Jasmine Hines and Jemima Burt 20 October 2020 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-20/seafarers-spend-18-months-without...

Australia's ports are being kept open by "slavery", a transport workers' union says, with seafarers forced to spend up to 18 months at sea after being "cajoled, sometimes bribed, very often threatened".

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20 seafarers avail of Cebu Port Authority’s crew change hub services

Tue, 10/20/2020 - 18:00 — helmsman

20 seafarers avail of CPA’s crew change hub services
Delta Dyrecka Letigio | October 20,2020 https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/346597/20-seafarers-avail-of-cpas-cre...

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Maritime Black Lives Matter

Tue, 10/20/2020 - 17:58 — helmsman

Maritime Black Lives Matter
October 20, 2020 https://splash247.com/maritime-black-lives-matter/

The shipping industry must act to include more Black people in its community and make them leaders, argues Namrata Nadkarni, chair of Communications and Events Working Group, Diversity in Maritime Taskforce, Maritime UK.

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Shipping protests sweep across London

Tue, 10/20/2020 - 17:55 — helmsman

Shipping protests sweep across London
Sam Chambers October 20, 2020 https://splash247.com/shipping-protests-sweep-across-london/

A series of protests across London marked day one of this week’s important International Maritime Organization-led (IMO) Inter-sessional Working Group On Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

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Russian intelligence accused of bringing down Maersk’s IT infrastructure

Tue, 10/20/2020 - 17:52 — helmsman

Russian intelligence accused of bringing down Maersk’s IT infrastructure
Sam Chambers October 20, 2020 https://splash247.com/russian-intelligence-accused-of-bringing-down-maer...

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Near-fatal accident spurs first-time maritime industry action

Tue, 10/20/2020 - 17:50 — helmsman

Near-fatal accident spurs first-time maritime industry action
20 October 2020 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/428787/near-fatal-accident-spurs-fir...

A Tauranga stevedore company has been subjected to the maritime industry's first-ever enforceable undertaking because of a near-fatal accident nearly three years ago.