At the beginning of February, an inspection by the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) discovered various shortcomings on a car carrier belonging to the Chinese shipping company Cosco. Among other things, the crew was paid far below the minimum standards set by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the Maritime Labour Convention.
Such abuses are not isolated cases. Time and again, seafarers report precarious working conditions that even violate human rights. However, these are not unique to merchant shipping. Such conditions are also known in manufacturing companies such as the textile or IT industry, or are condoned. This is because large companies deliberately have their goods produced in countries - mostly in the Global South,
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