ATHENS: Twenty of the 24 Filipino crew onboard a bulk carrier detained in Greece are to be repatriated after being stranded for four months.
The Panama-flagged handysize Golden Arrow III (34,200 dwt, built 1972) was arrested at Greece’s Aliveri Port on April 5 due to unpaid wages and outstanding financial obligations to the crew members and its creditors. The crew have been paid and have received other benefits from the ship management company, the Philippine Embassy in Athens told local press.
The vessel will depart Greece for Turkey, where the 20 crew will disembark at Aliaga Port and begin their journey home to the Philippines. The other four seafarers have chosen to stay onboard and continue working. The ship is operated by Sekur Holdings, the Piraeus-based in-house ship management company of Jordan’s CTI Group, which specialises in shipping and trading clinker and cement.
