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Due to the ongoing trade dispute between Australia and China and the Sars-CoV 19 pandemic, a group of Indian sailors who have been stranded in Chinese territorial waters
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#China #India #Australia #TradeWar #Coronavirus
Due to the ongoing trade dispute between Australia and China and the Sars-CoV 19 pandemic, a group of Indian sailors who have been stranded in Chinese territorial waters
have called for a "intervention" from the Indian government. Indian sailors make up a sizeable proportion of the world's merchant navy crews, as documented by Maritime Union of India (MUI). "We have been stuck here for a year now. We can't get medical treatment, we can't go out.
Our supplies are already running out," Gaurav Singh, a second officer aboard MV Anastasia, says in a video put up by Change.Org on Wednesday.
The sailors say that they had been waiting on anchor to unload the cargo outside the port before the trade spat between the two countries was triggered in May. Back in July 2019, the ship embarked on a voyage from Australia's Port of Hay Point to China's Caofeidian Port,
according to the merchant vessel tracking site Marinetraffic.com. Since reaching China, the vessel has been anchored in the waters of the Bohai Sea, unable to load its dry cargo.
"It would usually take a bit more than a month for a bulk carrier sailing at an average speed of 7.2 knots to get from Australia to China," says a master mariner.
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