ITF rescues abandoned crew from two ships from the same owner
ITF’s months of advocacy recovered $1 million in backpay owed to the 43 seafarers as well as flights home.
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ITF’s months of advocacy recovered $1 million in backpay owed to the 43 seafarers as well as flights home.
ITF’s months of advocacy recovered $1 million in backpay owed to the 43 seafarers as well as flights home.
The ITF says the two cases show the differences in how port states handle crew abandonment Thirteen Filipino seafarers have returned home after being stranded for over five months aboard...
Thirteen Filipino seafarers have made it home after more than five months aboard an abandoned livestock carrier ship, the Yangtze Harmony, thanks to the intervention of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF). The ship’s owners abandoned the vessel and its crew after the ship was arrested in October 2022 in Singapore over an unpaid fuel bill. That is when the shipowner also stopped paying the entire crew, leaving them without wages or a way to get home. By April, the crew were owed a massive USD $429,972.
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has secured a combined $1 million in back pay and repatriation for two different crews abandoned...