It is seven months since Vinay Kumar and his crew left the UAE after washing ashore in Umm Al Quwain on board a shipping tanker abandoned at sea for almost three years. When the Merchant Tanker Iba split from its anchorage in rough seas and drifted on to a public beach in January, it gave .
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Stranded sailors: ‘Mt Iba’ tanker crew to leave Dubai on repatriation flights
The crew of the abandoned merchant tanker Mt Iba are set to fly home to their families after four years stranded in the Gulf.
Sailing into Dubai Maritime City (DMC) port marked an end to a ordeal that made headlines around the world.
The Mt Iba, a 5,000-tonne Panama-flagged shipping vessel, washed ashore in Umm Al Quwain in January after breaking free from its anchorage in rough weather.
The ship had sat anchored off the UAE coast since 2017 after owners Alco Shipping hit financial problems.
It was finally sold in March, so the crew could be paid 80 per cent of what they were owed, amounting to about $170,000.
By Reuters Staff
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Nearly four years into their odyssey at sea, the five-member crew of oil tanker MT Iba is tantalisingly close to shore, yet still unable to set foot on dry land.
Bleary-eyed and wearing tattered clothes, the men are exhausted from an ordeal that has kept them from their families and aboard the 5,000-tonne vessel long after its owner abandoned it in the Gulf.
What started out as a regular seafaring job turned into what the men call a nightmare, when the tanker’s owner, Alco Shipping, fell into financial trouble and stopped paying their salaries 32 months ago.
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