Tag: Seafarerday

Two thought-provoking films aiming to spread the word on shipping – and in particular the role of seafarers – as the glue without which global trade would grind to a halt, have hit the web to coincide with Day of the Seafarer on June 25.

In the first, Making the World Go Round, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) does something so obvious it’s hard to believe it hasn’t been done before: it asks seafarers to talk about their working lives, why they became seafarers and what their experience has been since.