ITF coordinator warns of “unprecedented” seafarer crisis in conflict zones

ITF coordinator warns of “unprecedented” seafarer crisis in conflict zones

Mohamed Arrachedi has spent years dealing with seafarers abandoned far from home, chasing unpaid wages, pressing shipowners and managers, and working with port states, embassies and maritime authorities to get crews repatriated.  As the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) FOC Network Coordinator for the Arab world and Iran, his work often begins with a message from a vessel few people can locate, owned through structures few can ea…