Indian sailors’ SOS: ‘Company asking us to risk lives, cross Strait of Hormuz’
Indian sailors aboard the Marshall Islands-flagged vessel AM Pioneer have issued an SOS, alleging their Mumbai-based employer is forcing them to transit the high-risk Strait of Hormuz despite escalating US-Iran tensions. The Forward Seamen’s Union of India (FSUI) has highlighted the crew's refusal to sail under dangerous conditions, emphasizing the threat to their lives due to the geopolitical conflict impacting this critical maritime chokepoint.
Indian sailors aboard the Marshall Islands-flagged vessel AM Pioneer have issued an SOS, alleging their Mumbai-based employer is forcing them to transit the high-risk Strait of Hormuz despite escalating US-Iran tensions. The Forward Seamen’s Union of India (FSUI) has highlighted the crew's refusal to sail under dangerous conditions, emphasizing the threat to their lives due to the geopolitical conflict impacting this critical maritime chokepoint.
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