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Article

12 Jun 2019

Author:
Sajila Saseendran, Gulf News

Indian cook stranded at sea off UAE for 38 months to fly home

Rajib Ali, 39, had spent 38 months since April 9, 2016 on board three vessels of Elite Way Marine Services which abandoned a total of eight ships with 40 seafarers in the past couple of years. He was employed on board two other vessels of the same company before he was moved to Azraqmoiah... "I had paid Rs. 80,000 to an agent to get this job with $750 salary. In all these years, I stopped working and took rest for only four days when I got the news about my father’s death. But, after all the negotiations, I am getting only 24 months’ pending salary" [said Ali].

Captain Ayyappan... is losing $25,000 in unpaid wages... he said: “We went through a very bad phase. Our company had totally abandoned us, we didn’t have food, water or even medicines... We are extremely thankful to the FTA, especially Captain Abdullah Al Hayyas, director of maritime transport at the FTA, who took legal action against the company by banning its commercial operations and arresting the ships through the legal firm Fichte and Co.” He also thanked the Indian Consulate for keeping the crew alive with supply of provisions, freshwater, medicines and mobile chargers.