Feb 25, 2021 04:37:53 PM The government has not received any formal request for assistance from the three Filipino sailors stuck in Fiji. The three men were working onboard the inter-island vessel; the Lomaiviti Princess until two weeks ago when they were told to leave the ship. The men have no way of returning home unless Goundar Shipping Limited, their employer pays for their return. The International Transport Workers Federation has been pushing for Goundar Shipping to pay for their return home but so far has been unsuccessful. The three men are now asking the government to intervene to help the sailors get on the next flight home on March 4.
Drivers strike in Hyderabad | Credit: IFAT
Rajesh Kumar doesn’t have many enemies in life. But, Uber, for which he drives a cab everyday, is starting to look like one, he says.
Kumar was one of the 40-odd Uber and Ola drivers who protested at Jantar Mantar in Delhi last week, against the ride-sharing companies’ various policies. These drivers want the government to intervene and fix the fares for Ola and Uber, like it does for other taxis in the country. They also wanted respite from paying road tax for at least two years, and for the prices of petrol and diesel to immediately go down.
After 3 years abandoned at sea without pay, this oil tanker crew is on cusp of going home
When a shipping company from the United Arab Emirates hit financial trouble in 2017 and abandoned its oil tanker off the coast of Dubai, it left a small crew still aboard, stranded at sea without pay or a way home.
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Nay Win, left, and fellow crew members aboard the MT Iba earlier this month.(Abdel Hadi Ramahi/Reuters)
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MUMBAI: The 16 Indian seafarers of “MV Anastasia” merchant ship, who were stuck at the Chinese anchorage for more than six months, have finally reached Mumbai after they sailed to Japan on February 10.
The National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI) and Maritime Union of India (MUI) had very strongly taken up the matter of “Jag Anand” and “Anastasia” (the two merchant ships) which were stuck at the Chinese anchorage.
NUSI’s General Secretary – cum – Treasurer, Abdulgani Y Serang said the companies Great Eastern and MSC, the Maritime Administration, the Ministry of Shipping, the Ministry of External Affairs coordinated the efforts for the release of the two ships. “On the instructions of NUSI thousands of individual seafarers, their families, the shipping associations wrote to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) demanding strong action for a crew change of Jag Anand and Anastasia .”