Posted on 04/23/2021 7:21:54 PM PDT by dynachrome
So apparently a ship, sailing under the Panamanian flag, owned by a Japanese company, operated by a German company, staffed by Indians and stuck in Egypt has no international guarantees of rights for its workers not to end up in a kind of floating solitary confinement. The world literally runs on this kind of shipping and it’s only possible because of these sailors that companies can apparently abandon if that’s how the spreadsheet shakes out. That’s fairly discouraging. Hopefully, the crew of the Ever Given can get some justice, and a flight home, soon.
Apparently, it isn’t unusual for crew members to get trapped on ships caught in the middle of international shipping disputes. The Guardian details the fate of one sailor who has been the lone guardian of a ship for the last two years in the Gulf of Suez only 50 miles south of where the Ever Given has been held since it was freed back in March. He’s only allowed off the ship for two hour intervals to get food and water.
(Excerpt) Read more at jalopnik.com ...
Legalized piracy
Absolutely, the ship was being piloted by two Suez Pilots-you can be assured they aren’t stuck on the ship.
Essentially this ship is being held hostage for ransom and there's not a lot anyone can do about it since it's trapped inside an Egyptian waterway. If it happened in international waters then the insurers could send a team to steal the ship back (yep, they have folks that do this), but being still inside Egypt they can't really do that.
I hope things these sailors can find a way out. Right now they're essentially trapped in a giant pissing contest between Egypt and Evergreen. Likely Egypt was as much or more at fault for the incident since their pilot was on board at the time and his whole reason for being there is to make sure things like this don't happen.
When the FIRST sentence is WRONG, the article is worthless.
Evergreen is a Taiwanese based group of companies, with the shipping line owned by THE HARTFORD.
This article is about as informative as John Kerry.
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Declare yourselves pregnant Honduran illegal immigrants looking for hand outs and free stuff and Biden will send Marine One to get you.
I wonder if the dude ever tried to escape at night, or are these people always watching?
A friend of mine claims that navy seals swarmed the containers and found thousands of dead bodies, trafficked individuals and WMDs. https://m.beforeitsnews.com/politics/2021/04/trafficked-children-bodies-weapons-found-on-evergreen-ship-blocking-suez-canal-3230145.html
The ship is not the only one. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zD-KjuGuiM
The owner of the Evergiven is Japanese. A lot of these companies have separate ownership for each vessel. The Hartford is probably the mortgage holder.
I worked for a tanker company that had 23 ships and 23 different holding companies.
That article is dated April 1.
I heard that guy was released from his bondage and flew out of Egypt. The people who worked tirelessly to get him out did have to provide a replacement.
The premise of the article is still misleading, even if MY information was incorrect. I don’t make any claim to being anything other than another semi-informed but still missing a crapload of info humanoid. THAT was the strength of this site: We could all put the information available to each of us, use it, collate it, and work together to present a factual case and take down the liars. How we have fallen.
Buckhead, you were the peak of FReepdom. Thank you, wherever you ended up.
Back to square one?
The spirit of Buckhead lives on, in the Free Republic.
Seek what you are looking for beyond the trees.
Apparently 30,000 containers on board. It takes time to search that many containers.
I pointed that out. He still believes it.
Qballs aren’t fit to wash Buckhead’s car.
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