Day: 4 August 2009

NZ Herald reports on Annapurna crew

The New Zealand Her­ald has an NZPA report on the sit­u­a­tion of the Anna­pur­na and it’s Burmese crew here.

Maritime Union helps Burmese crew on Annapurna

The Mar­itime Union says it is help­ing the Burmese crew from the seized ves­sel Anna­pur­na in the Ports of Auck­land.

The Liber­ian-flagged Anna­pur­na was seized yes­ter­day by cred­i­tors after it berthed in Auck­land, fol­low­ing the bank­rupt­cy of its own­ers East­wind.

Mar­itime Union Auck­land Sea­far­ers Branch Sec­re­tary Gar­ry Parsloe, who rep­re­sents the Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers Fed­er­a­tion, says the pri­ma­ry con­cern of the Union is that crew mem­bers are paid their wages.