FreeSeas will intensify its efforts to repatriate 22 seafarers on a laid-up bulker who started a hunger strike earlier this week.

An executive from the company told TradeWinds he has been in constant communication with the crew and creditors in order to find a solution.

The 30,838-dwt Free Neptune (built 1996) has been in hot lay up off the port of Sohar, Oman, since June.

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