Tag: stranded crew

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.

After almost a month in captivity, the Nigerian army released 14 crewmembers from a Chinese fishing boat from their pirate kidnappers, following a ransom payment.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority managed to save thirteen crewmembers who had been missing almost a week in the Solomon Sea.

In light of the ongoing crew change crisis, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company is calling for an urgent crew change solution for the bulk carrier “ANASTASIA”, which is stuck off the coast of northern China.

At least 15 seafarers were missing after a Panama-flagged cargo ship capsized in rough seas off Vietnam, Reuters agency reported.