Four seafarers aboard a Euronav tanker were able to disembark to the French Island of Reunion, as the shipping industry's crewing crisis continues.

The Belgian shipowner said in a social media post on Thursday that the quartet left the 150,200-dwt Statia (built 2006) in the suezmax's first crew change in more than three months.

Reunion, a French overseas department roughly 390 miles east of Madagascar, "has recently been opened for crew changes", the post read.