Crews Are Abandoned on Ships in Record Numbers Without Pay, Food or a Way Home

Sun, 10/10/2021 - 08:41 — helmsman

Crews Are Abandoned on Ships in Record Numbers Without Pay, Food or a Way Home
Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson Oct. 8, 2021

Failing companies ditch vessels too expensive to repair or too difficult to sell, leaving behind cargo-ship castaways trapped in ports or offshore

CONSTANTA, Romania—An engineer stuck on a cargo ship abandoned in a Black Sea port has waited four years to get paid and go home.

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