UPDATED: Missing oil tanker with 17 Georgians on board found off coast of Gabon
The Pantelena ship carrying 17 Georgians and two Russians, was declared missing by the Georgian foreign ministry last week. Screenshot from Africa News video.
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We are in tight contact with the shipping company in order to provide the crew with their primary needs (drinking water, food and other),” said the ministry.
The Maritime Transport Agency of Georgia reports that 22-year-old Davit Razmadze, a Georgian sailor who disappeared from a ship in Libya on 7 January 2019, has been found dead. Director of the Maritime Transport Agency of Georgia Tamar Ioseliani says his body has been identified.
The Georgian Foreign Ministry has responded to a briefing of the family members of two Georgian sailors who have been unable to leave Libya for two months, saying that the restriction is related to legal procedures and the death of another Georgian sailor back in January.
Libyan law enforcers have allowed two Georgian sailors, Raul Takidze and Manuchar Kekelidze, to return to their homeland after a three-month exit ban related to the controversial death of another sailor David Razmadze back in January 2019 in the Libyan port of Misrata.
Two oil tankers were hit by explosions in Gulf of Oman today. 44 crew members including one Georgian citizen were safely rescued.
Georgian sailor Otar Vardidze, who was kidnapped with three foreign crew members by pirates from Greek-flagged tanker in the Africa’s Port of Lome, Togo Terminal on November 4 has been released today, Georgia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports.