The Philippines’ Department of Migrant Workers says 837 Filipino seafarers affected by attacks in the northern Black Sea and the Strait of Hormuz have been brought home this year. Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac gave the figures in Manila on 11 November, out of 1,189 crew affected.
India’s embassy for Yemen has evacuated 19 Indian seafarers who were stranded for about two weeks in Hodeidah, the Red Sea port, and the capital Sana’a. The embassy says all the seafarers are safe, in good health and on their way back home to India.
Fourteen Filipino seafarers rescued after the container ship Contship Jet was hit by drones and sank off Bulgaria in the Black Sea are due home in the Philippines on 2 November. Survivors said they jumped into the sea and waited two to three hours before rescue.
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