Tag: stranded crew

Four seafarers from Colombia, Panama, and Peru have been abandoned on a 60-year-old tugboat, the Wycliffe, in Puget Sound, Washington.

The MV Dali, a container vessel, collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on March 26, leaving 21 seafarers stranded on board for almost two months. 

Iran has announced its intention to release the 17 crew members who were on board a ship seized in January. This release is contingent on the condition that the Philippine Government sends replacement crew members for those being released.

One of the eighteen Filipino crew members aboard the oil tanker ST Nikolas, which was seized by Iranian authorities in January, has been released, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) of the Philippines.

Ten seafarers from the RA-Horakhty fishing vessel, abandoned in Mombasa, Kenya for the past nine months, face a bleak Christmas as efforts to seek legal redress and repatriation have been delayed.

Navy vessel rescued two Iranian mariners Nov. 27 from a fishing vessel after it was adrift for eight days in the Gulf of Oman. 

The movement of an internationally displaced community of I-Kiribati seafarers has been expedited by recent travel arrangements.

A cargo vessel, which was reportedly carrying 600 tons of coal, capsized in Passur channel of Mongla port, with seven crew members onboard 

Eleven seafarers trapped aboard the Haj Abdulla are at extreme risk, with the ship taking on water off Mogadishu, Somalia, ITF informed.

On 6 October, the Bulgarian National Television reported that the crew evacuation on the Vera Su, the cargo vessel that was stranded on northern Black Sea, Bulgaria, had started.