Abdul Nasser Saleh says he rarely got a good night’s sleep during the near-decade he spent working without pay on a cargo ship abandoned by its owner at ports along the Red Sea. Leaving at last felt like returning to his “center of gravity,” he said. Saleh’s plight is part of a global problem that shows no signs of abating.
Stuck at sea for years, a sailor's plight highlights a surge in shipowner abandonment