Sheksna
10 seafarers abandoned on the Sheksna (IMO 8876572, flag Cameroon) in Durban, South Africa, 1 February 2023. ILO case 747, status: Disputed.
- Status
- Disputed
- Abandonment ID
- 747
- IMO Number
- 8876572
- Flag
- Cameroon
- Port of Abandonment
- Durban, South Africa
- Abandonment Date
- 1 February 2023
- Notification Date
- 2 April 2023
- Seafarers
- 10
- Reporting Org.
- International Transport Workers' Federation
Circumstances
Crew have reported:
• our contracts are finished and the company doesn’t want to send us home (7 persons)
• the company doesn’t pay our salary for 4 months
• there are insects on board (cockroaches, flies)
• provision room don’t work
• no fruit and vegetables on board
• we have problems in the engine room
• we don't have an engine on the rescue boat
• left bilge tank has leakage
Updates
17 October 2023: International Transport Workers' Federation
Crew reported that they had been paid their wages and repatriated, but we receive no evidence