More than a dozen seafarers from South Korea, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Indonesia are now making their way home after the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and its Iranian affiliate helped broker their release from Iranian authorities.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seized the South Korean-flagged tanker MT Hankuk Chemi in the Strait of Hormuz on 4 January 2021. The crew detained in the process were five South Korean, 11 Burmese, two Vietnamese and two Indonesian seafarers.
The ITF was...
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