Ship Crew Members Abandoned In Kenya For 18 Months
As many as 10 seafarers of a cargo ship have been living in hell for the last 18 months as the unscrupulous shipowners left them stranded in Kenya without any pay and food
As many as 10 seafarers of a cargo ship have been living in hell for the last 18 months as the unscrupulous shipowners left them stranded in Kenya without any pay and food
As the COVID second wave causes a surge in cases all over the world, seafarers have been caught off-guard in ships once again.
Now big brands have come together to rescue these stranded seafarers and bring them home.
Extracts from an interview by the BBC’s Paul Adams with Syrian chief officer Mohammed Aisha who has been stranded on board his ship which has been detained at an anchorage in Suez, Egypt, since May 2017 were present in the conversation.
The Red Sea Port Authority of Egypt has shirked its responsibility in the shocking case of Mohammad Aisha and the Bahraini-flagged MV Aman.
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 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.
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.
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.
After months of negotiations finally, the stranded seafarers of MV Anastasia have returned to Indian from China.