'Severe fatigue and stress': Australia says stranded sailors' fate in hands of shipping company

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The Australian government says the fate of two dozen Indian sailors stranded for five months at a Chinese port with 170,000 tonnes of Australian coal is a matter for the companies involved

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Family members of the sailors say medications and supplies are running out after the coking coal from Gladstone Port in Queensland was rejected by Chinese authorities at a port in northern China om June 13. The 290-metre long ship has not moved since.

"We continue to engage with industry about the impact that these longer processing times are having on resources exporters."Resources Minister Keith PittIn a letter posted to Twitter on Friday, the wife of one of the crew members said the vessel had been at anchor at the Chinese port of Jingtang in northern China since June 13 "with no news of near berthing schedule".

 

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That's Scott Morrison to a tee. All talk and no real empathy. His speech today was more of the same arrogant bravado. Talking up his government who were all out to lunch over this pandemic. Really they didn't do jack, it was the States that did the work. Fuck that guy.

seems like it should go to Japan

Is anyone surprised at the Aust. Govt's response? No? Didn't think so.

PMOIndia HardeepSPuri nitin_gadkari JPNadda DrSJaishankar ScottMorrisonMP Please look after these sailor. Shameless Aust gov't has abandoned them.

Apart form Iron ore, anything else Australia sells to China can be reasonably substituted without it suffering any negative consequence. Same can't be said about Australia's reliance on China, its biggest market

Stay classy, Aust government. Letting the market decide this one?

Ahhh - the good old “not my responsibility”

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