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The United Nations over the last decade has logged an increasing number of crew members abandoned by shipowners around the world

An engineer stuck on a cargo ship abandoned in a Black Sea port has waited four years to get paid and go home. Off the coast of Somalia, a crew awaiting pay languishes on a pirate-trawled stretch of the Indian Ocean while their ship slowly takes on water. Another 14 seafarers, stuck on a cargo ...

Supplied by Rev. Moses Muli/Mission to Seafarers Unscrupulous cargo ship owners can abandon whole crews at sea if they run into money troubles. One crew, stranded off the coast of Mombasa, Kenya, has been trapped at sea for 18 months. The plight of the Ever Given focused attention on seafarers' wellbeing in an often-shady industry. Off the coast of Kenya, near Mombasa, sits the MV Jinan, laden with steel.  The cargo ship has not moved for 18 months and neither has its 10 crew.  In October 2019, the Jinan's owner abandoned the ship, leaving the crew without pay ...

In May 2017, the MV Aman was detained at the mouth of the Suez Canal over an unsettled debt of $21,500. Chief Mate Mohammad Aisha has been trapped on the cargo ship ever since. As second in command, the Captain of the MV Aman convinced Aisha he should sign a letter taking responsibility for the ship’s care. It was a move Aisha told the Wall Street Journal was the biggest mistake of his life.

A Syrian sailor spent a frightening four years trapped aboard a cargo ship off the Egyptian coast – two of them alone — before he was finally allowed to go home earlier this month, according to reports.