Port and shipping authorities have only begun an operation to salvage the stranded MT Pratibha Cauvery but seamen are already queuing up to work on board the derelict vessel that ran aground off Elliot’s Beach last Wednesday.
The unemployed sailors are desperate for jobs and agents are making a killing by charging each as much as 40,000 to find them a spot on the ship.
Experts say there is a paucity of jobs in the shipping sector, which has too few jobs for the large number of engineers graduating from marine institutions.
Source: The Times of India
