Nautilus International is an international

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and professional association representing seafarers and allied workers, which is based in the

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, the

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and

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Organisation

The union's head office is in

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, UK; its

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is Mark Dickinson. The union also has offices in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and Basel, Switzerland. Nautilus International is affiliated to the

International Transport Workers' Federation The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a democratic global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896. In 2017 the ITF had 677 member organizations in 149 countries, representing a combined membership ...

, International Federation of Shipmasters Associations, the UK

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, the Federation of Dutch Trade Unions and the Nautilus Federation.

Membership

The union's membership in 2016 stood at more than 22,000; 15,043 in the UK (male: 14,537, female: 506). This includes " shipmasters, officers, cadets, ratings, yacht crew, VTS officers, harbourmasters, river boatmen, nautical college lecturers, maritime lawyers and even ship-based medical personnel.".

History

On 2 October 2006, the British

National Union of Marine, Aviation and Shipping Transport Officers The National Union of Marine, Aviation and Shipping Transport Officers (NUMAST) was a trade union representing seafarers and allied workers, based in the United Kingdom. History Nautilus traces its roots back more than 150 years, when the Mercant ...

and the Dutch

Federation of Maritime Workers The Federation of Maritime Workers ( nl, Federatie van Werknemers in de Zeevaart, FWZ) was a trade union representing sailors in the Netherlands. The union was founded in 1967, when the recently-founded General Association of Seafarers merged with ...

formed the Nautilus Federation. The two unions changed their names to Nautilus UK, and Nautilus NL, respectively, and worked closely together on an industrial and political level. In 2008, members of Nautilus UK and Nautilus NL voted overwhelmingly in favour of proposals to create a new single trans-boundary union for maritime professionals. Nautilus International was born on 15 May 2009. In 2011, Swiss maritime professionals and boatmen, formerly represented by Swiss union Unia, voted to join Nautilus International. In 2015, FNV Waterbouw also became part of the union.

General Secretaries

:2009: Mark Dickinson

References

External links

*{{official website, https://www.nautilusint.org/
Nautilus Federation website
Maritime officers' trade unions International Transport Workers' Federation Transport trade unions in the United Kingdom Trade unions in the United Kingdom Trade unions in the Netherlands Trade unions in Switzerland Trade unions established in 2009 Trade unions based in London