{"id":23181,"date":"2022-02-11T19:28:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T13:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/biz-maritime-union-seafarers-iran\/"},"modified":"2022-02-13T09:45:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T04:15:56","slug":"biz-maritime-union-seafarers-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/biz-maritime-union-seafarers-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Indian seafarers stranded since 2019 on cargo ship in Iran released: Maritime Union of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"trade-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"trade-189974532\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/get\/telegram\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-101992\" src=\"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/telegram-channel-300x119.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"59\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN3Epgswxc--Aw?hl=en-IN&amp;gl=IN&amp;ceid=IN%3Aen\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-123430\" src=\"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/follow-on-google-news-300x82.png\" alt=\"follow-on-google-news\" width=\"222\" height=\"61\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/follow-on-google-news-300x82.png 300w, https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/follow-on-google-news-150x41.png 150w, https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/follow-on-google-news.png 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><p> Mumbai, Feb 11 (PTI) Two Indian seafarers stranded without passports on a cargo ship in Iran&#8217;s port city of Bushehr since 2019, have been released after the Indian Embassy in Tehran issued travel documents, the Maritime Union of India (MUI) said Friday.<\/p><div class=\"trade-content_7\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"trade-4065630259\"><!-- Composite Start --> \r\n <div id=\"M923760ScriptRootC1549812\"> \r\n <\/div> \r\n <script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.mgid.com\/t\/r\/tradebrains.in.1549812.js\" async> \r\n <\/script> \r\n <!-- Composite End --><\/div>\n<p> The claim made by the MUI could not be independently verified.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The Indian Embassy in Tehran issued travel documents to both these seafarers and the Maritime Union of India financed their air tickets to Mumbai today (Friday),&#8221; the Union said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> According to the MUI, Indian seafarers, Arham Shaikh and Ashish Sakpal, left Mumbai on a tourist visa for Iran to join a cargo ship in September 2019 stationed at an anchorage at Bandar Abbas Port.<\/p><div class=\"trade-content_5\" id=\"trade-2525874312\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4023722985638610\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- in_content_2_news -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4023722985638610\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7925020301\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p> &#8220;Their trip was facilitated by an unscrupulous recruitment agency operating in Mumbai. Once these Indian seafarers reached a cargo ship in Iran, the shipowner and his local agent confiscated their passports, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Thereafter, the shipowner and his local agent claimed to have lost passports of both these Indian seafarers. Their cargo ship by the name &#8216;Sea Princess&#8217; thus became a floating jail for these seafarers as they could not leave Iran in absence of their passports,&#8221; MUI alleged.<\/p>\n<p> The shipowner provided the two Indian seafarers with little food and inadequate drinking water aboard the cargo ship, it alleged, adding that &#8220;ultimately, these seafarers lost communication with their family members back home in India in the absence of electric power on their cargo ship&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Our family members finally sought help from MUI in 2020,&#8221; the statement quoted Shaikh and Sakpal as saying.<\/p>\n<p> Eventually, MUI General Secretary Amar Singh Thakur and senior executive Akbar Khan established connections with the Indian Ambassador of Tehran, Iranian Ambassador in New Delhi, Iranian Merchant Mariners Syndicate in Tehran and ITF London, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Thakur also met senior officials of the external affairs ministry in New Delhi to solve our problem,&#8221; it said. 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