No food, no pay, no liberty: marooned sailors plead with shipowners to be rescued

Katie McQue

Crew left to drift off Mozambique by firm registered in the UK are latest in rising number abandoned at sea

Twelve seafarers have been stranded in a tanker off the coast of Beira in Mozambique for 10 months, with limited supplies of food, water and power, after a UK-registered shipping company refused to let them leave.

The Gas Falcon has three Pakistani and nine Indonesian seafarers on board. They have not been paid this year and are collectively owed more than $260,000 in missed salaries.