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hudsonespie · 4 years

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14 Seafarers Who Spent Weeks Without Pay And Faced Starvation Are Now Back With Their Families

Eight weeks in limbo, without pay and facing starvation, far from home in the Bay of São Sebastião, Brazil, 14 seafarers from Ukraine and Montenegro are finally back with their families thanks to the ITF. And they’re home with US$261,009 backpay in hand.

In July, Renialdo de Freitas reported that, as ITF Inspector in Brazil, he had made contact with the crew and was working with government authorities to recover wages.

We can now share with you the inside story on the trials and tribulations of the crew of the Srakane.

Image Credits: itfglobal.org

de Freitas first picked up an SOS from chief officer Nikita Pavlenko* onboard the Srakaneafter it arrived in Salvadore from Morocco in April.

“We drop anchor today (20 April), morning time,” Pavlenko emailed. “Five crew members have not received salary for six months and don’t want to continue job. All contracts finished. We await your help.”

de Freitas asked if the vessel had deficiencies so it could be detained in a Brazilian port under local laws and the Maritime Labour Convention. Pavlenko alerted him to problems with the crane, hatch covers and navigation bridge equipment.

The 34-year-old general cargo vessel had been stuck in Salvadore a month undergoing repairs and refuelling. Crew were anxious about supplies running low and money not reaching their families. Chief Officer Pavlenko was suffering migraines at the stress.

“My headaches are only increased every day. I constantly take pills,” he later wrote.

The Panamanian flag of convenience vessel next headed south.

“I’m monitoring the vessel’s position,” de Freitas wrote to the crew. “I am ready to contact the port authorities of São Sebastião. I have already advised Claudio Tarifa (Labour inspector, Brazil) the owner, and the port authorities.”

“I have asked for urgent measures to provide food/provisions to the ship.”

When the Srakane arrived in the Port of São Sebastião on 1 June, De Freitas drove four hours down to meet the crew.

Pavlenko says the captain threatened them not to say anything. The captain blamed the crew for calling the authorities.

The master was one of only two Croatians on board the ship, which is named after an island in Croatia’s Adriatic sea and owned by a Croatian company.

“I’m told they had a bit of a fight and Pavlenko locked himself in his cabin,” said de Freitas.

The ITF Inspector advised the crew to stay calm in the face of any further provocation or harassment, and not leave the vessel before their wages were paid.

“Otherwise all of you could lose everything,” he wrote.

The crew made it clear they would take a stand.

“We are already tired of this mockery of our families,” one crew member wrote. “Many of our relatives require medicinal attention and we cannot even provide for our children.”

“Who else should we inform that our rights are violated, not only as sailors, but also as people,” he added, calling on the President of Ukraine for help.

Brazil has been a signatory to the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) since November 2019, and government authorities decided that on this occasion it was important to enforce it.

The Brazilian Navy helped resupply the vessel. A task force made up of officials from the ministries of Labour, Justice, Social Security, federal police and the Navy was put together.

The owners representative was given a deadline of 16 June. When that date passed, the ship was detained as a guarantee of the wages and other monies owed.

de Freitas then worked with the government prosecutor by video conference to help mount the case against the ship’s owners, managers and charterers.

The ITF was preparing to claim abandonment, abuse and poor vessel maintenance under the MLC.

After finding the men on board had gone without their salaries for between four and 11 months, Brazilian Labour inspector Claudio Tarifa reported serious violations of human and labour rights to the Ukraine Consulate General. She said some crew members had not even received their pay owed from previous contracts.

“There is no other way for the crew to try to provide for themselves and to honour the basic needs of their dependents,” Tarifa reported. “The unpaid crew member becomes vulnerable and fragile. There is no option, there is no way to get off the ship, there is no way to act.”

Back in the homeland of the majority of the seafarers of the Svkrane, the ITF was also making noise. ITF Inspector Nataliya Yefrimenko spoke out:

“Their employer is breaking their obligations, and that will be having a large impact on families back home who rely on those wages.”

The ship’s operator, Oceans Wide Ltd, and the employer pleaded financial difficulties due to the Covid-19 crisis.

While the pandemic has had a large impact on the global seafaring workforce and some shipping routes, most cargo has continued to move. The crew change crisis is affecting seafarers unable to join and leave ships – but it has not yet affected shipping companies or the supply of goods. In any case, the crew of the Srakane had gone unpaid for months before the pandemic hit.

de Freitas said the ITF was wary of letting employers ‘off the hook’ for cheating crew of their wages due to Covid-19. Under the MLC, if a ship’s owner cannot pay, then other parties including charterers can become liable.

The Brazilian authorities worked tirelessly to find a solution to get the foreign crew of the Srakane home, and paid their wages.

Then, on July 4, came a breakthrough. A local businessman, João Carlos Camisa Nova Junior, of agribusiness CBA Exportação de Produtos Agrícolas Ltd, agreed to sub-charter Seachois Ltd for the Srakane to ship soyabeans to Europe. This raised US$300,000 up front and was more than enough to settle the crew’s wages and repatriation costs.

Both he and charterer Seachios signed a Conduct Adjustment Terms – CBA signing as guarantor. Seachois then arranged to employ a local Brazilian crew to take over the Srakane, enabling a crew change to go ahead abd the Ukrainian and Montenegrin crew then able to fly home.

After repairs were made the vessel was released from detention. The Srakane was back in business ready to ship goods from Port of São Sebastião across the Atlantic to Europe.

As well as receiving all wages owning, each seafarer was provided their airfares, transfers, medical care, accommodation and meals for the journey. They also each received US$400 for any out-of-pocket costs on the journey.

Three crew suffering stress were the first returned home on July 18, alongside a cadet from Montenegro. The final 12 remaining seafarers followed on on 26 July and 30 July.

The second officer and captain of the Srakane are expected to disembark after the ship arrives in the next port.

Upon arriving in the Ukraine chief officer Pavlenko wrote to ITF inspector de Freitas back in Brazil: “Thank you very much for your huge efforts and titanic work…All crew received money.”

The men of the Srakane were home. And paid.

Reference: itfglobal.org

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magdy666666 · 4 years

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There’s 11,086 kilometres between São Sebastião, Brazil and the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv. It’s those eleven thousand kilometres ITF Inspector Renialdo de Freitas has been working to get 16 Ukrainian seafarers back across, to their homes and families. With their wages.

The seafarers are the crew of a Panamanian-flagged vessel, the Srakane. The ship has been laid up in the São Sebastião Channel…

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eblueeconomy · 4 years

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The seafarers are the crew of a Panamanian-flagged vessel, the Srakane. The ship has been laid up in the São Sebastião Channel…

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thegazeofaparisienne · 7 years

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Etre pierre, se souvenir des belles pierres de notre enfance, de notre histoire à tous, perdue dans les temps les plus anciens.

Musée Zadkine – Crédit Photo : ©Estelle de Talhouet Roy

Ossip Zadkine, lui aussi gardait en lui dans sa mémoire ces pierres fossilisées des “hommes des cavernes” de plusieurs milliers d’années, celles retrouvées sur le site de Bruniquel (dans le Lot). Après la guerre, l’artiste très marqué, s’y était réfugié. C’est à cet endroit qu’il a de nouveau envie de créer et qu’il se marie avec Valentine Prax, entouré de son témoin Foujita.

Etre pierre c’est le titre de l’exposition en cours dans ce musée atelier de Zadkine c’est l’idée des deux commissaires : Noëlle Chabert, directrice du lieu et de Jessica Castex du Musée d’art moderne,

Premier plan “Tête d’homme” 2e plan : “Tête de femme” 1924 ayant appartenu à Eileen Gray

“un corps à corps ” * qui s’engage très tôt entre Zadkine et la pierre. En 1909 lorsqu’il quitte sa Russie pour l’Angleterre où il retrouve son oncle, l’artiste aurait apporté de ses terres natales une première sculpture en pierre.

L’exposition commence par nous montrer le lien entre les arts primitifs et les oeuvres contemporaines. Une source d’inspiration évidente qui a permis aux artistes modernes de renouveler complètement la sculpture avec la taille directe et le bloc dont la forme préexistante est la source d’inspiration du sculpteur. Dans ses mains et à travers la vision de l’artiste, la pierre prend vie. Contrairement à Rodin, qui, lui, utilise la pierre comme un matériau de sa future création.

Brancusi appelle cela : “L’essence cosmique de la matière”

Brancusi qui fit un passage éclair dans l’atelier de Rodin, passa très vite à la taille directe et il créa en 1910, ce sublime baiser (stèle du cimetière Montparnasse), en souvenir de cette jeune fille qui se suicide par amour. Dans cette exposition, on peut voir le dessin schéma de ce baiser à partir du quel il créera la borne frontière en rapport avec la situation politique de son pays et la fameuse porte du baiser (1938).

« J’ai voulu évoquer non seulement le souvenir de ce couple unique mais celui de tous les couples du monde qui ont connu l’amour avant de quitter la vie » Brancusi

Que pensait l’homme préhistorique devant son menhir trouvé dans le Rouergue, au fin fond d’une forêt, représentant une divinité protectrice avec ce petit air de poupée russe ?

Evariste Richer “Fulgurite” 2008

Un Règne minéral invisible, omniprésent que ce soit dans les ruines archéologiques de Ninive, en Irak berceau de notre civilisation, ou juste une pierre polie par les vagues qui nous invite à la méditation ou encore nous émerveille comme des perles de cavernes résultat d’un phénomène géologique extraordinaire produit par les stalactites. Encore des perles, celles fossilisées de l’artiste Katie Peterson qui a réalisé ce collier suspendu “fossil necklace”.

Des sculptures mais aussi des photographies, celle de Dove Allouche, qui capte 2000 ans d’histoire sur ses négatifs, toujours cette recherche de nos origines à travers la beauté des traces millénaires prises sur une stalagmite dans une grotte.

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Marko Pogacnik Crédit Photo : ©Estelle de Talhouet Roy

Marko Pogacnik “Elemental being of a stone from Srakane, Croatia” 2017

L’origine du Monde dans son intimité, symbolisée par cette photo de l’Equatorien Oscar Santillan, qui nous raconte cet équilibre entre forces de création de pierre et de la lumière, juste à côté d’un petit singe de Zadkine et d’une météorite prêtée par le Muséum.

Ossip Zadkine “tête d’homme” 1922 Pratchaya Phinthong “All is dust” 2017

Ossip Zadkine

J’adore ces deux photos de Hans Hartung qui donne à une de ses pierres le titre “Brancusi”, on comprendra très facilement pourquoi en la voyant !

Une vraie promenade à travers les temps et les arts qu’inspirent les oeuvres de Zadkine. Comme cette oeuvre de jeunesse, “ce vieux caillou” sur lequel il cassa ses outils et dut alors, faire appel à un forgeron pour lui en fabriquer d’autres. Bien plus tard, il donnera le jour à cette très belle tête d’Eileen Gray, la très élégante designer, l’artiste poussera le raffinement jusqu’aux détails des sourcils, les yeux incrustés de marbre gris, le rouge à lèvre peint délicatement, une oeuvre fascinante !

Etre Pierre – Au centre oeuvre de Jimmie Durham “Tranquilité” 2000 Crédit Photo : ©Estelle de Talhouet Roy

Et tous ces artistes qui entourent Zadkine dans son atelier que ce soient les très grands comme Picasso, avec ses petits galets ou d’autres contemporains, ils ont tous ce lien fort avec la pierre et semblent tenter de nous donner une réponse à toutes nos questions existentielles. Fabien Giraud et Raphaël Siboni sont allés jusqu’à expérimenter la matière et à rentrer dans cette échelle minérale et cela a donné le film “La mesure minérale”. Evariste Richer, lui, retranscrit ce moment, où, du sable est transformé par la foudre en fulgurite.

Marko Pogacnik le guérisseur de la terre, place des pierres dans la nature et pratique la lithopuncture, il soigne la terre, il a fait partie d’un groupe de land art, dans les années 60, et a participé à la Biennale de Venise .

Marc Couturier “Nuage stellaire” 2017 Crédit Photo : ©Estelle de Talhouet Roy

Musée Atelier Zadkine ©thegazeofaparisienne

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Akio Suzuki “Oto-Date” ©thegazeofaparisienne

Une maison atelier qui nous donne l’impression de rentrer dans l’intimité de l’artiste, où nous pouvons à loisir faire le tour d’une sculpture et admirer ses courbes si harmonieuses, sensuelles, une chute de reins qui n’a rien à envier à celle inoubliable de Mireille Darc !

Un rendez-vous des artistes contemporains auprès de Zadkine, auquel nous sommes invités et tout fonctionne, donne envie de savoir, de s’attarder dans ce jardin au soleil, poser ces pieds sur l’oeuvre d’Akio Suzuki et oser la méditation !

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hudsonespie · 4 years

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ITF Working To Get Ukrainian Seafarers’ Unpaid Wages Of Over USD 180000

There are 11,086 kilometres between São Sebastião, Brazil and the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv. It’s those eleven thousand kilometres ITF Inspector Renialdo de Freitas has been working to get 16 Ukrainian seafarers back across, to their homes and families. With their wages.

The seafarers are the crew of a Panamanian-flagged vessel, the Srakane. The ship has been laid up in the São Sebastião Channel for more than three weeks. The seafarers want to go home – but they also want their employer to pay their outstanding wages before they leave the vessel. They are owed collectively over USD180,000.

The ship came to Brazil from Morocco in early June, calling into a number of ports before anchoring in São Sebastião. The crew refused to go any further until they receive their wages, which haven’t been paid in at least seven months. The captain has gone four months, and one crew member has not been paid for almost a year.

Image Credits: itfglobal.com

During the challenging economic times of Covid-19, it was more important than ever that crew from labour-providing nations like Ukraine to be paid in order to send back wages to their loved ones at home, said Nataliya Yefrimenko, ITF Inspector based in Ukraine.

“Seafarers like those aboard the Srakane have left their families and homes for months at sea with the promise by their employers that they would be paid regularly and repatriated when their contracts finished. Now it is clear that their employer is breaking their obligations, and that will be having a large impact on families back home who rely on those wages. There is no welfare state to fall back on – families need these incomes,” said Yefrimenko.

With the Panamanian-flagged ship’s owner unable to pay the wages owed to the crew or cover the cost of repatriation, the situation was deteriorating for life on board the ship in the São Sebastião Channel. A Brazilian news outlet reported:[1]

With the tense atmosphere on board, workers also complain about the ship’s captain, a Croatian national, of constantly threatening them not to report.

There was criticism of the lack of supplies on board, as the ship was at anchor for almost a month at the port of Salvador in Bahia, awaiting instructions to proceed to the next destination.

A request for help from a crew member (Chief Officer) was made to the Brazilian authorities claiming to have been attacked by the ship’s captain. Subsequently, the crew made another cry for help, this time claiming that the supply of water and food would be running out.

The situation of the crew is considered serious, requiring humanitarian aid …there is a risk of strike or riot on board. Following reports such as these and complaints from the crew, Brazilian labour author ties acted, boarding the ship and ensuring the charterer, Seachios Ltd, provided fresh water and food to the crew. The authorities also made sure crew received medical and dental assistance. With their immediate welfare needs met, the crew’s attention has turned to recovering their wages and returning home.

ITF Inspector Renialdo De Freitas, who lives a four-hour drive from where the ship is anchored, said when the owner did not fulfil his obligations to pay back the wages by the deadline the ITF had given, the organisation pushed for detention.

As a result of the ITF’s action, a Brazilian Federal Labour Prosecutor began proceedings against the ship’s manager in the São Sebastião Regional Labour Court, requesting the ship be detained until the outstanding wages were paid.

As authorities began to mount a case against the various owners, managers and charterers of the ship, ITF support has be critical. De Freitas has been assisting the prosecutor with details of the case via videoconference while working on other angles to see the crew’s wages paid.

While it seems increasingly unlikely that the ship’s owner will pay the wages owed to the crew, the prosecutor has started processes that could see the wages recovered from Seachios Ltd, the company which negotiated the charter of the ship to Brazil. Through this method, Seachios Ltd would be responsible of collecting the money from the investors to pay the outstanding salaries and repatriations.

“In an encouraging sign, Seachios Ltd accepted the prosecutor’s proposal. We hope that this solution can be sorted by the end of the week through either method,” ITF Inspector Renialdo De Freitas said.

“The ship is registered with the Hanseatic P&I club as the financial security provider. I am working with the crew in claiming abandonment, maintenance, repatriation and the payment of back wages. We are trying every avenue to get these seafarers their wages and tickets home to Europe,”

“Covid-19 has meant disrupted trade routes and made it even more likely some companies will not survive this pandemic. For crew, that could make it much more difficult to recover their unpaid wages. I hope for a good outcome for the crew of the Srakane,” said de Freitas.

Reference: itfglobal.com

[1] The original report has been translated by the ITF into English for the purposes of this article. No responsibility is taken for unintended errors.

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