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Tensions between China and Australia saw ships stranded for months on end after imports were restricted.
In December, The Age reported crew members had not been allowed off the ship since January 2020 and their health was deteriorating as a consequence.
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The Jag Anand crew in a photo taken last year by crew member Virendrasingh Bhosale.(Virendrasingh Bhosale via The Age)
Last year, China announced it would restrict imports of Australian coal in favour of both local production and imports from other suppliers, in a move that threatens the $14 billion Australian export industry.
The action was among other trade sanctions that targeted Australian exporters after the Federal Government criticised Beijing s handling of the pandemic.
By Kevin Varley (Bloomberg)
The Jag Anand, stranded off the Chinese coast for 356 days with Australian coal, left the port of Jingtang yesterday after delivering its cargo, according to shipping data analyzed by Bloomberg.
Chartered by Cargill Inc, the vessel left the port of Gladstone on May 26 last year, laden with 174,000 tons of coal. It went into anchorage off Jingtang in mid-June last year before finally arriving into port on May 16.
The ship and its sailors, along with more than 70 other bulk carriers, were essentially stranded off the coast when China implemented a ban on several Australian commodities amid worsening relations between the two countries.
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Two Indian sailors onboard MV Anastasia recall how they withstood the Chinese cold shoulder, Caofeidian’s freezing weather and the depressing uncertainty
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The crisply-worded email arrived early on February 4. More than two weeks on, one of its recipients, 28-year-old
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Swiss-Italian bulk carrier MV Anastasia, still gets goosebumps about the message which, he says, he will remember throughout his life. Sent by the Indian embassy in Beijing, China, the email carried the message that Singh and 15 other Indian sailors, along with two other