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The war united the incompatible. A teacher became a tankman, a lawyer became an artilleryman, and seafarers became infantrymen. It doesn't matter who you were before, the most important thing is who you are now. And now everyone is a defender. MTWTU member, V.Ships Messman Vladyslav Markosyan knows what it's like when you have to start from scratch: to learn those skills that you didn't even think about. Vladyslav has not seen his family for almost a year, and even though he is used to long separations, it is difficult for him. However, the seafarer knows his motivation: to see the smile of his wife and daughter and to play football with his son. Such simple things make sense in the darkest of times.

25-27 квітня у штаб-квартирі Міжнародної організації праці (ILO) у Женеві відбувся навчальний візит української тристоронньої делегації.

The Government of Canada has greenlit the CAD $2 billion Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project, a significant container terminal expansion project in Delta, British Columbia.

The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine has extended the validity of seafarers' qualification documents until 31 December 2023.

The Black Sea region has witnessed a considerable decline in its market volumes, with the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine resulting in a sharp drop in laden volumes by 28.4 percent (almost 690,000 TEU) in 2022. As per Informall BG's latest data, the region's laden import volumes fell by 25 percent, while laden export traffic declined by a staggering 33 percent. Although total regional turnover substantially decreased, the container ports of Romania and Georgia have seen laden volume growing since the beginning of Russian war.

Thirteen Filipino seafarers have made it home after more than five months aboard an abandoned livestock carrier ship, the Yangtze Harmony, thanks to the intervention of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF).

On April 11, 2023, President of Ukraine signed the Law of Ukraine “On amendments to certain legislative acts of Ukraine regarding the protection of the rights of labour migrants and combating fraud in employment abroad” № 2982-IX dated 20.03.2023 (hereinafter – the Law, https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2982-20#Text ). The Law was published on April 14, 2023.

The MTWTU was approached by a seafarer claiming that the shipowner had neglected the telemedicine regulations on board and failed to provide proper medical care on time.

Despite a traditionally slow period for US ports in February, the Port of New York and New Jersey managed to move 571,177 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) of cargo in February, surpassing West Coast rivals such as the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach by more than 83,000 TEUs and 27,000 TEUs, respectively.

Coming back from the depths of the shipping surge experienced in 2021 and early 2022, the container shipping industry is recovering its schedule reliability to levels last seen at the onset of the pandemic.