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Popular Brands Unite To Send Stranded Seafarers Back Home

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As the COVID second wave causes a surge in cases all over the world, seafarers have been caught off-guard in ships once again. Thousands of seafarers have been stranded in vessels. Now big brands have come together to rescue these stranded seafarers and bring them home.

A checklist has been adopted regarding this and companies have been advised to follow the checklist while booking ships for their cargo. One of the major checkpoints that have been included in the list is the measure to support...

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Watch: Chief Officer Abandoned On Cargo Vessel For Almost 4 Years

Chief Officer Md. Aisha stranded onboard for 4 years

On Saturday, 17 April, representatives from the International IMO and Human Rights at Sea (HRAS) joined BBC Radio Scotland’s national morning programme to discuss the ongoing issue and rising cases of abandoned seafarers globally. Mr Frederick Kenney, Director of the IMO Legal Affairs and External Relations Division, and David Hammond, CEO, HRAS, answered searching questions with the aim of bringing increased understanding to the Scottish audience.

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Meet The Seafarer Trapped On Board MV Aman For 4 Years (And Counting)

‘I have had to swim to shore every few days to get food and water’ – Meet the seafarer trapped on board the MV Aman for four years (and counting)

The Red Sea Port Authority of Egypt has shirked its responsibility in the shocking case of Mohammad Aisha and the Bahraini-flagged MV Aman. They have a moral duty to act now, whatever the legal rights and wrongs, says representatives of the union federation representing the stranded seafarer.

When the general cargo ship the MV Aman (IMO 9215517) was detained at the Suez anchorage in Egypt in July 2017, chief officer Mohammad Aisha had only been on board for two months. He is still on board now,...

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4 Seafarers Stranded In Tug Boats For 2 Years Released With Sailors’ Society’s Help

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A crew of four Indian seafarers who spent two years stranded “like modern day slaves” on a ship in Mumbai in horrific conditions have finally gone home, thanks to help from Sailors’ Society.

The men ran out of food, the electricity supply was turned off, cockroaches infested the ship and one of them was bitten by a rat during their nightmare on board the ship, after the owners filed for bankruptcy and liquidators took over the vessel.

Three months ago, they stopped receiving their salaries. The...

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Filipino Crew Left Stranded In Fiji By Employees And Manning Agency

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Three Filipino crewmen have been left stranded in Fiji by their employers and manning agency. The seafarers have found themselves with few options and remain in limbo having contacted affiliated humanitarian support workers to Human Rights at Sea and provided firsthand testimony.

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The crewmen, John Lyod Restauro, Janjan Bantilan, and John Kenneth Kadusale, were working for Goundar Shipping Limited, a Fijian registered passenger ferry company based in Suva. The men were hired through the...

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Abandoned Palmali Crew Caught In An Inhumane Trap; Seafarers Starved In Darkness

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The humanitarian effort to feed, repatriate and fight for the seafarers’ outstanding wages has been spearheaded by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and its inspectors.

This week four seafarers on one ship owned by Mübariz Mansimov Gurbanoğlu’s Palmali shipping company, the Captain Nagdaliyev (IMO 9575307), were freed by Lebanese authorities after the crew took to a hunger strike in an effort to go home. The tanker was arrested in the port of Beirut on May 12, 2020 and when...

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MT Iba Seafarers To Return Home After Settling Wages

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Seafarers stranded for months on MT Iba vessels are now free to go after their wages were settled. 5 crew members of the ship abandoned in Umm Al Quwain beach have settled for $165,000 as their wages. The shipping is being sold now. The seafarers were stranded on the abandoned ship for 43 months.

One of the seafarers, 31 year old second engineer of the vessel Vinay Kumar who has been stuck on the ship hasn’t received any payment since 2017.

The other 4 crew members, chief engineer Nay Win, second...

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Update: 16 Seafarers From MV Anastasia Crew Finally Land In India

MSC MV Anastasia

After months of negotiations finally, the stranded seafarers of MV Anastasia have returned to Indian from China. The crew was stranded in China as Beijing denied permission to unload Australian coal cargo carried by the ship.

The 16 Indian sailors of Anastasia reached Japan on February 10 and from there they came to India. Earlier the crew of another ship MV Jag Anand reached India following the same route. The crew change was arranged by MSC, the shipping company which managed the ship.

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19 Seafarers Go On Hunger Strike for Third Week

  • 19 seafarers aboard the 1982-built bulker Ula launch a hunger strike to protest their abandonment at the port of Shuaiba, Kuwait.
  • The crew demands back pay totaling more than $400,000, along with immediate repatriation.
  • Since January 7, they refuse all food, and they told the ITF that they will not eat while they have no wages to feed their families.
  • Six are already in hospital for treatment and return to the ship.

A recent news article published in the Maritime Executive reveals that 19...

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Abandoned Seafarers In Kuwait On Hunger Strike For Pending Wages Of Up To 20 Months

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  • Seafarers on an abandoned bulk carrier are onto the 3rd week of hunger strike.
  • Seafarers are demanding immediate release and pending wages of $400,000 USD
  • Some of them already hospitalised due to low blood pressure and blood sugar issues
  • The ship is flagless at present as the flag state cancelled registration in 2020
  • Shipowner along with the shipping company has been blacklisted since 2017

Seafarers stuck on a ship stranded in Kuwait are fasting to their death seeking immediate release.

The...

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