- 18 crew members of an Aframax tanker have requested for replacement and repatriation from Shanghai.
- Sailors want to be on the safe side and insist on repatriation.
- The crew have a limited supply of face mask and banned from reaching shore.
According to an article published in Maritime Bulletin, crew members of an Aframax tanker have requested for replacement and repatriation from Shanghai.
Seamen request repatriation
The 18 crew of Aframax tanker STI Rose requested replacement and repatriation from Shanghai, where the tanker is presently docked, pending 2-month repairs at ship repair yard. 21 crew include 10 Russian, 10 Filipino and 1 Greek nationalities.
Russian seamen also contacted the Russian General Consular in Shanghai, with the same request. Shanghai isn’t listed in red-hot zones stricken by coronavirus epidemics, and according to Consular and ship’s Greek management, there’s no clear and present danger of infection, but sailors want to be on the safe side and insist on repatriation.
Crew banned from reaching shore
The crew didn’t get enough supplies of face masks, they have been provided with only 100 masks, while each such mask should be replaced with a new one every 2 hours, so the crew isn’t protected by masks for quite some time already. Russian authorities, therefore, rejected seamen in repatriation. They turned to ITF, but with the same result.
Presently, the crew is banned from shore leaves, for whatever purposes, except maybe, repairs-related.
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Source: MaritimeBulletin
