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Deep Waters: Container ships

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The Physicality of Ships

Abdullah Daha was the captain of a bulk carrier whose owner told the crew back in 2020 that he couldn't afford to pay them their full salaries. They just get a fraction of what they were owed in cash when they left. Abdullah and his crew said they wouldn't leave until they were paid in full. And since that time they keep us without food, without water, we live only on Shibuk, I'm not going anywhere. What really is like being in jail? Exactly like a jail. Terrible more than jail also. At the jail at least, at least at the jail sometimes you receive some visitors. Here not.

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