India targets more crewing agencies over seafarer exploitation

India targets more crewing agencies over seafarer exploitation
Paul Peachey 31 December 2025

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India has struck off a crewing agency that supplied seafarers left unpaid for months after the US sanctioned its product tanker.

Crew manager 7 Star Shipping Services recruited seafarers for the 6,020-dwt Sondos (built 2002), but the Indian shipping regulator said that some were not paid for up to six months.

The Sondos and its manager, United Arab Emirates-based Ozarka Shipping, were blacklisted by the US in August as part of the campaign of “maximum pressure” against Iran by the administration of US President Donald Trump.

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