Changes to the rules of protection and indemnity (P&I) clubs to provide cover for abandoned seafarers appear to offer no succour to the unpaid crew of a Today Makes Tomorrow (TMT) vessel running out of supplies at a Red Sea anchorage.
The P&I clubs revised their rules at the 20 February start of the new policy year to provide repatriation cover required under the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), but are waiting until the new regime comes into force on 20 August to implement this change.
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