{"id":22377,"date":"2024-01-24T10:43:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T10:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seafarersrights.org\/?p=22377"},"modified":"2024-01-24T10:43:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T10:43:44","slug":"seafarer-abandonment-figures-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seafarersrights.org\/seafarer-abandonment-figures-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Seafarer Abandonment Figures Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21426\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/abandon-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seafarersrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/abandon-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seafarersrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/abandon-31x22.jpg 31w, https:\/\/seafarersrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/abandon.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) has released its figures for the numbers of vessels abandoned in 2023 \u2013 which show a worrying increase on figures from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 132\u00a0abandonments were reported which is 13\u00a0more than in 2022 \u2013 an increase of 10.92%. The overwhelming majority of those reports (129) were made by the ITF.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (\u2018MLC\u2019), you are deemed to have been abandoned if the shipowner fails to cover the cost of a seafarer\u2019s repatriation; or has left them without the necessary maintenance and support; or has otherwise unilaterally severed ties with them, including their failure to pay the seafarers\u2019 contractual wages for a period of at least two months.<\/p>\n<p>Key findings showed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Owed wages from the 129 ITF reported cases in excess of\u00a0$12.1 million.<\/li>\n<li>1,676\u00a0seafarers contacted ITF from abandoned vessels.<\/li>\n<li>Indian seafarers were the most abandoned, with more than\u00a0400 cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ITF have received more than $10.9 million in owed wages from 60 of these vessels so far.\u00a0The final figure will exceed $12.1 million as cases take time to resolve and as other seafarers come forward, thereby increasing the <a>amount<\/a> of recoverable wages.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Trowsdale, ITF Inspectorate Coordinator said &#8220;<em>The ongoing rise in the number of seafarer abandonments is unacceptable. It is a consequence of an industry where the seafarer can be a throw-away commodity. Seafarers and their families pay the ultimate price for the greed and non-compliance of ship owners, enduring the inhuman consequences of a system that compromises their well-being, dignity and basic human rights. ITF inspectors do an incredible job in holding to account those shipowners that try to get away with treating seafarers like some sort of modern-day slaves<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The highest numbers of abandonments by flag state were:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itfglobal.org\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/table%20flag%20states.png\" alt=\"Flag states table\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"fb482f5f-0023-4963-8ded-6d0da1729fda\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) has released its figures for the numbers of vessels abandoned in 2023 \u2013 which show a worrying increase on figures from the previous year. A total of 132\u00a0abandonments were reported which is 13\u00a0more than in 2022 \u2013 an increase of 10.92%. The overwhelming majority of those reports (129) were <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/seafarersrights.org\/seafarer-abandonment-figures-rise\/\">[Read More&hellip;]&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":660,"featured_media":21426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"entry","9":"gs-1","10":"gs-odd","11":"gs-even","12":"gs-featured-content-entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Seafarer Abandonment Figures Rise - Seafarers Rights International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seafarersrights.org\/seafarer-abandonment-figures-rise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seafarer Abandonment Figures Rise - Seafarers Rights International\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) has released its figures for the numbers of vessels abandoned in 2023 \u2013 which show a worrying increase on figures from the previous year. 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