The ETF Dockers Section is devastated by the news of the brutal missile strike on the HHLA Container Terminal in Odessa — an attack that has claimed the life of one worker and left eight others injured.

This initiative aims to identify skills gap emerging from the digital and green transition and discuss the shortage of maritime professionals and limited mobility between land and on-board positions.

It’s time for Europe to get serious about enhancing seafarers’ living and working conditions and protecting its maritime jobs and maritime skills base!
The time has come for the European Commission and the industry to take social dumping and unfair competition out of the EU/EEA.

As the EU Social Partners, ETF and ECSA have worked closely together for over two years under the joint WESS project for an attractive, smart and sustainable working environment in the shipping sector.

No sustainable progress can be achieved in any industry, whether maritime or otherwise, while countries and companies remain engaged in a race to the bottom regarding tax and labour policies, which circumvent collectively agreed working conditions, including wages.

Better social security coverage for seafarers residing in EU countries is above all a matter of cooperation between national authorities.