HYDERABAD: Three crew members of the ‘Ever Given’ now in the Suez Canal area in Egypt who have completed their contract on the ship will be allowed to return home to India.
The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has accepted the request of Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), the ship manager, to allow for relieving of the crew on completion of their contract period.
Currently, there are 25 Indian national crew members onboard the vessel. All are safe, in good health and in good spirits. Day-to-day operations onboard the vessel continue with the seafarers aboard conducting routine fire and safety drills alongside ongoing planned vessel maintenance, BSM said.
Apart from the economic blockade, Venezuela is also dealing with armed attacks from Colombia. VSC member Joe Montero told the meeting that because of these paramilitary incursions, the Venezuelan government has given people guns and training to defend themselves. More than three million people have joined the Bolivarian militia citizens who have volunteered to help in the defence of Venezuela against US-backed aggression
Yonaton Vargas, a member of the Bolivar and Zamora Revolutionary Current, spoke by video link from Venezuela, saying the country faces “constant aggression from the Colombian oligarchy and US imperialism”. He said US troops are stationed at seven bases in Colombia, as well as bases in Curacao and Aruba, the Dutch-ruled islands off Venezuela’s coast. Vargas said that citizen’s assemblies are helping people organise against the provocations.
Sailor Spends Four Years Trapped on Abandoned Ship
Mohammed Aisha, a Syrian sailor working on a Bahraini cargo ship stranded off the Egyptian coast, was forced to spend four years as a castaway after a court made him the ship’s legal guardian.
The sailor’s troubles began in July 2017, when the ship he was working on, the MV Aman, was detained at the Egyptian port of Adabiya, because its safety equipment and classification certificates had expired. Usually, this sort of issues are easily resolvable, but the ship’s owners in Bahrain were experiencing financial difficulties, and its Lebanese contractors. As the ship’s Egyptian captain had gone ashore after the MV Aman was technically abandoned at sea, Mohammed, the ship’s chief officer, was named its legal guardian by a local court. When Aisha signed the document, he had no idea he would be sentencing himself to four years of self-isolation on the ship…
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