Settlement Is Reached Over Stuck Ship That Blocked Suez Canal in Egypt

In this case, however, the crew appears to have been spared.

“A foreign seafarer is a very easy target,” said Stephen Cotton, the general secretary of the International Transport Workers’ Federation, which represents the crew.

In an interview after the ship was impounded, Abdulgani Serang, the general secretary of the National Union of Seafarers of India, described the crew, members of which he had spoken to briefly, as tense and feeling the pressure of the investigation.

“Quite justifiably,” he said, “they are stressed.”

Nada Rashwan contributed reporting.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/world/middleeast/suez-canal-stuck-ship-settlement.html