Crew Of Ever Given Could Be Stuck On The Big Boat For Years Jalopnik 2 hrs ago Erin Marquis © Photo: Ahmad HASSAN / AFP (Getty Images) The Panama-flagged MV ‘Ever Given’ container ship is tugged in Egypt’s Suez Canal after it was fully dislodged from the banks, near Suez city, on March 29, 2021.
The news cycle may have moved on from the Ever Given, but the Ever Given still hasn’t moved on from its holding spot in the Great Bitter Lake in the middle of the Suez Canal after almost a month. The crew still stuck on the ship is very concerned about this, as there seems to be no sign that an agreement will be reached between Egypt and the Ever Given’s owners any time soon. Until there is an agreement in place, the crew is stuck there, and they could be for years.
The Ever Given saga continues, amid positive news for some of the crew
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ITF confirms Ever Given crew welfare, but Egypt cannot hold Suez seafarers hostage
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For two years Mohammad Aisha has been the lone resident of an abandoned container ship marooned off Egypt in the Gulf of Suez. If he needs to charge his phone, get drinking water or buy food, he has to row to shore, although he can only stay for two hours at most as the area is a restricted military zone. According to one doctor who examined him, the malnourished sailor has started to exhibit similar symptoms to prisoners held in poor conditions.
Aisha has been the custodian of the 4,000-tonne MV Aman, trapped onboard as a prolonged legal battle to sell the vessel and pay the crew plays out thousands of miles away. Less than 50 miles north, the crew of the Ever Given, now immersed in its own legal struggles, are hoping to avoid anything close to the same fate. On Sunday, representatives from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), an umbrella union that represents seafarers, boarded the ship to check on the crew’s wellbe