"The Faryal is one of a number of abandaoned ships moored off the UAE coast. As of October 2016 the six crew (five Indians and one Bangladeshi) had been stranded for between 22 and 36 months, roughly 20km away from the port. The crew were dependent on food and water aid from the NGO Mission to Seafarers.
The case was documented by NGO Human Rights at Sea as part of a series of ship abandonment cases."
取られた措置: The company did not respond to requests from Khaleej Times. Previously, Mission to Seafares received assurances from the company that they would pay sailors' salaries but this had not happened by the time of the report.
情報源のタイプ: NGO
要約
Date Reported: 2016年10月13日
場所:
アラブ首長国連邦
According to NGO Mission to Seafarers, 16 workers including Indian, Burmese and Pakistani nationals, are stranded around 12-13km off the Ajman coast, UAE on an abandoned vessel. As of October 2016 the workers had not been paid for nine moths, when their contracts expired. Mission to Seafarers have been supplying the SL Star with food, water and essentials.
"Six Asian sailors stuck on ship near Ajman port", 13 Oct 2016.
Six sailors are struggling without food, fresh drinking water and other basic necessities on a ship named Faryal anchored near Ajman Port. The five Indians and a Bangladeshi are stuck almost 10 nautical miles (18-20km) away from the port.The ship is owned by a Sharjah-based company, Kinetic Energy Lubricants...According to Reverend Nelson Fernandez, a Mission to Seafarers representative who oversees RAK and the Northern Emirates operations, there is another vessel (SL Star) almost 8 nautical miles (12-13 km) away from Ajman, carrying 16 people comprising Indians, Burmese and Pakistanis, in a similar situation. He said: "The contract of this ship expired nine months ago and these seafarers have not been paid since then. Somehow, they are surviving on the ship. It looks like the ship has been abandoned by the owner."