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Filipino crew repatriated from bulker arrested in Greece

Twenty of the 24 Filipino crew onboard a bulk carrier detained in Greece are to be repatriated after being stranded for four months. The Panama-flagged handysize Golden Arrow III (34,200 dwt, built 1972) was arrested at Greece’s Aliveri Port on April 5 due to unpaid wages and outstanding financial obligations to the crew members and its creditors. The crew have been paid and have received other benefits from the ship management company, the Philippine Embassy in Athens told local press. The vessel will depart Greece for Turkey, where the 20 crew will disembark at Aliaga Port and begin their journey home to the Philippines. The other four seafarers have chosen to stay onboard and continue working. The ship is operated by Sekur Holdings, the Piraeus-based in-house ship management company of Jordan’s CTI Group, which specialises in shipping and trading clinker and cement. Before arriving at Aliveri Port in April, the vessel was also stranded for three months in Benghazi, Libya. According to Equasis, the Golden Arrow III is currently out of class, its classification with the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping having lapsed in May. http://splash247.com/filipino-crew-repatriated-from-bulker-arrested-in-greece/

32 Filipino seamen back from Egypt after non-payment stay on Golden Arrow III

THIRTY-TWO Filipino seafarers who suffered abuses from their employers arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) from Egypt late the other day. This was learned from Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) chief Carmelita Dimzon, who assigned an OWWA repatriation team to assist the seafarers who were likewise referred to POEA for legal assistance. Dimzon said the seafarers who manned MV Golden Arrow III complained of non-payment of wages and remunerations by the ship owner. Some of them, she said, decided to stay in the vessel and wait for their back wages as promised by the superintendent who was negotiating with the ship personnel, with payment to be derived from the sale of one of the vessels of the shipowner.