{"id":402502,"date":"2011-04-27T17:05:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T17:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/27\/seafarers-threaten-boycott-over-piracy\/"},"modified":"2011-04-27T17:05:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T17:05:53","slug":"seafarers-threaten-boycott-over-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/27\/seafarers-threaten-boycott-over-piracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Seafarers Threaten Boycott Over Piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"34.1658155602\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/7305b8cerfi-logo-en.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>27 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Indian seafarers&#8217; unions and shipping organisations warned Wednesday that piracy could lead to a boycott by crews if nothing is done to tackle the problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a strong possibility that a collective international boycott by the seafarers coming from the labour-supplying countries like the Philippines, India, Indonesia, Russia, Bangladesh, etc is round the corner,&#8221; the heads of the National Union of Seafarers of India, Maritime Union of India and Indian National Shipowners Association said. &#8220;Shipowners and seafarers have been left to fend for themselves without any worldwide government support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The warning, in a joint letter to India&#8217;s shipping regulator, was signed by the heads of six other representative bodies of shipping companies and ship owners.<\/p>\n<p>It followed a protest march in Mumbai involving about 200 sailors against a spate of armed hijackings involving Indian crews.<\/p>\n<p>More than 500 Indian sailors on over 20 ships are currently being held.<\/p>\n<p>Seven crew members on a bitumen-asphalt tanker, the MT Asphalt venture, are still captive even though a ransom has been paid.<\/p>\n<p>The unions called on the Indian government to step up its efforts to combat piracy by lobbying at the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Somali transitional government&#8217;s Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdulahi Omar Asharq told a counter-piracy conference in Dubai last week that the world is losing the battle against the pirates.<\/p>\n<p>The international policy of &#8220;containment&#8221; through naval patrols off the Somali coast is not working, he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\/20110427-seafarers-threaten-boycott-over-piracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read or Listen to this story on the RFI website<\/a><\/strong><\/em>  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201104271158.html\" title=\"Seafarers Threaten Boycott Over Piracy\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seafarers Threaten Boycott Over Piracy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 27 April 2011 Indian seafarers&#8217; unions and shipping organisations warned Wednesday that piracy could lead to a boycott by crews if nothing is done to tackle the problem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":397718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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