ITF says violence makes it too risky to change crews in north Mozambique

The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) has requested that shipowners do not make crew changes in northern Mozambique due to violence from alleged affiliates of the Islamic State.

The ITF said the risk of an attack harming seafarers or ending in their kidnapping was too high to justify continuing to switch crews in the country's province of Cabo Delgado due to the insurgency there.