Larobon
7 seafarers abandoned on the Larobon (IMO 7514517, flag Zambia) in Valletta, Malta, 23 March 2021. ILO case 533, status: Unresolved.
- Status
- Unresolved
- Abandonment ID
- 533
- IMO Number
- 7514517
- Flag
- Zambia
- Port of Abandonment
- Valletta, Malta
- Abandonment Date
- 23 March 2021
- Notification Date
- 4 May 2021
- Seafarers
- 7
- Reporting Org.
- International Transport Workers' Federation
Circumstances
No MLC certificates on board and no Financial security in place.
All crew are owed more than two months of wages. Limited provisions. Their requests for repatriation have been turned down. Inactive P&I and expired documents. The Owner declares that he has no funds.
Updates
9 June 2021: India
From DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF SHIPPING, MUMBAI
1. I am directed to refer your email dated 03.06.2021 informing this Office about the abandonment of vessel LARABON (Formerly MARAYA; IMO No. 7514517; Zavrbia Flag)
having 07 seafarers on board (05 from India and 02 from Syria) since 23.03.2021.I1 is also informed that the crew have two (02) months of wages pending. The vessel have very limited provisions on board and the request of all the seafarers for their repatriation has also been tumed down. It is also informed that the registration of vessel with the Zarrbia is still pending and they have not been informed about the incident yet. Owners were also contacted but they didn't responded to any of the communicated made to them.
2. In this connection, it is stated that the matter was immediately taken up with the RPS Company, as per the details available in the E-Gov. System of this Directorate. The RPS Company in response has informed that the last slot of seafarers recruited through them have already been signed off from the vessel in 2019. Cunently they don't have any seafarer recruited on board by them. As such the possibility that the said seafarers might have taken the employment on board the ship directly cannot be ruled out.
3. In view of the above, it is kindly requested that the current crew list of the said vessel may please be obtained from the source of the complaint and communicated to this office so as to enable this Office to take further necessary action in the matter at the earliest.
4 May 2021: International Transport Workers' Federation
Looking to have at least the 5 Indian crew repatriated in order to mitigate the issue of owed salaries in the light of the fact that the owner claims he is out of funds. Also looking to initiate a court process in order to recover the owed salaries
Note: IHS Markit, Equasis and Marine Traffic report the vessel name as MARAYA, but AIS is reporting it as LAROBON.