Below is a declaration supplied by the International Transport Workers’ Federation in reaction to the Panama Canal Authority’s (ACP) declared rebuke of an independent research study appointed by the ITF which discovered that exhaustion of Panama Canal tugboat positions a significant risk to safety and security in the procedure of the Panama Canal’s Neopanamax locks.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is astonished as well as dissatisfied to check out in the media of the Panama Canal Authority’s (ACP) hostile as well as unfavorable response to the launch of the independent research study appointed by the ITF that analyzed the severe health and wellness threats associated with the exhaustion of tugboat captains in the brand-new Neopanamax locks.

The research study was gone over throughout the Plenary Session of the International Maritime Organization’s 100th Maritime Safety Committee recently as well as was well gotten as it offers an independent specialist review of the circumstance in the Canal.

Over the previous 18 months, the ITF carries numerous events provided to help with an open as well as clear discussion in between the reps of the ACP as well as Union de Capitanes y Oficiales de Cubierta (UCOC), the union that stand for the tugboat captains in the Canal procedures. The ITF has actually additionally consistently welcomed the ACP to proactively take part in the research study, which ACP has actually regretfully stopped working to state in their remarks to the media. The ACP has actually additionally left out the reality that they sent out a letter notifying us that the specialists entrusted to carry out the research study were restricted to access any kind of ACP centers as component of their research study.

The ITF keeps in mind that ACP describes the ITF as a “foreign union” as well as we desire to clarify this misperception as well as misstatement: the ITF is an autonomous worldwide union federation of 670 transportation employees trade unions standing for over 20 million transportation employees in 140 nations. UCOC is just one of the sixteen ITF associated unions inPanama The ITF is not an international union.

In reality, among the primary motorists behind this record was the defense of the safety and security of Panamanians servicing the Canal, as well as credibility of the Canal itself for allPanamanians The Canal is of significant financial as well as symbolic worth to Panama as well as the ITF will certainly do whatever it can to stop the ACP from threatening that.

It is unfortunate that once more the ACP has actually selected to spread out disinformation in order to disperse from the genuine problems, as recognized in the research study, rather than sharing a determination to discover the equally helpful services that will certainly reduce exhaustion as well as boost safety and security in among the globe’s essential maritime transportation courses.

The ITF gets in touch with the ACP to stop its damaging as well as harmful practices as well as become part of a severe, useful discussion with the experts that operate in as well as for the Canal to make sure that the success of the Canal proceeds as well as the Canal stays a happy as well as essential property to Panama’s economic climate as well as to the worldwide delivery sector in its entirety.

The ITF completely sustains the Canal, however an effective Canal can not be improved hazardous problems that place human lives as well as the atmosphere in danger. The ITF repeats our solid dedication to useful teamwork with the ACP as well as wish that ACP will certainly approve our invite to have an open, truthful as well as clear discussion with UCOC.

The complete record can right here downloaded and install in English right here.