The International Transport Workers’ Federation is calling on A.P. Moller – Maersk to shield its seafarers as well as incurable employees from the coronavirus pandemic in order to maintain supply chains relocating.

In a declaration in advance of Maersk’s yearly basic conference on Monday, the ITF as well as its associates are asking that Maersk offers Personal Protective Equipment to its employees to defend against the transmission COVID-19. The ITF is additionally requesting complete pay to be offered to employees that have actually fallen victim to the infection or are needed to enter into self-isolation as a safety measure.

The ITF is additionally pressing federal governments to guarantee secure staff adjustments as a growing number of seafarers are dealing with traveling constraints.

“Ships must be able to sail in order to ensure the export and import of vital goods and medicines, and for this to happen crew changes must be carried out while infection control measures are observed,” the ITF claimed in a declaration onModnay “Currently, the ITF is dealing every day with situations where seafarers cannot move freely to safely sign on and off ships. This is due to the increasing number of restrictions being placed by national governments on movements in and out of their country. Therefore, governments need to recognise the vital role of seafarers in this extraordinary crisis, and for them to be treated as ‘key workers’, regardless of nationality.”

“The ITF, and our maritime affiliates representing seafarers and dockers, are also asking flag states to take proper responsibility for the health and wellbeing of all workers and passengers onboard their vessels when there are cases of Covid-19, and this includes flags of convenience,” the ITF claimed.

The ITF is consisted of almost 700 transportation employees trade unions standing for around 20 million employees, consisting of seafarers, dockers, yank watercraft employees as well as inland transportation employees.

Maersk recently put on hold staff adjustments for its run ships up until April 14, 2020. At completion of 2019, Maersk’s fleet included 307 had as well as 401 legal ships with a small TEU capability of greater than 4.1 million TEUs. The firm additionally runs ports throughout the globe with its APM Terminals associate.