Nineteen seafarers from India, Bangladesh, Turkey and Azerbaijan will be able to see their families again this week after the ITF’s advocacy brought their two-year ordeal to a close. One member of the MV ULA (IMO: 8102414) crew had even been trapped aboard the ship for 31 months.
The seafarers were left abandoned as part of a larger crew of 25 when Ula’s owner, Aswan Trading and Contracting, stopped paying their wages and providing food, fuel and water in 2019.
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