MUMBAI: The 16 Indian seafarers of “MV Anastasia” merchant ship, who were stuck at the Chinese anchorage for more than six months, have finally reached Mumbai after they sailed to Japan on February 10.
The National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI) and Maritime Union of India (MUI) had very strongly taken up the matter of “Jag Anand” and “Anastasia” (the two merchant ships) which were stuck at the Chinese anchorage.
NUSI’s General Secretary – cum – Treasurer, Abdulgani Y Serang said the companies Great Eastern and MSC, the Maritime Administration, the Ministry of Shipping, the Ministry of External Affairs coordinated the efforts for the release of the two ships. “On the instructions of NUSI thousands of individual seafarers, their families, the shipping associations wrote to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) demanding strong action for a crew change of Jag Anand and Anastasia .”
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