“Help Us. No Food. No Salary”: Abandoned Vietnamese Seafarers Finally Home With Union Support

MV Viet Tin 01 abandoned by its owner in Malaysian waters

It was an image that shocked many. A ship with the desperate scrawls of a desperate crew scribbled across the hull of what had become their floating prison, as the tanker bobbed aimlessly in the warm waters of the South China Sea.

Now, after at least two months of anxious waiting for flights and government permissions, the Vietnamese crew of the MV Viet Tin 01 are finally home with union support. The case of the 12 seafarers onboard the Viet Tin 01 came to the attention of the International...

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