Ten seafarers from Aframax oil tanker Wind (IMO: 9252967) have been freed from slave-like conditions only after the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) demanded their release. Many of the crew were more than two months over the end of their contracts, raising safety concerns, and had not been paid for months at a time (currently, one-month’s pay is owned).
The ITF wrote to the ship’s operator, SR Navigation, on 29 October 2021 and again on 3 November 2021 demanding that the...