India's Shipping Ministry Asks Public for Help on Cold-Case Fatal Accidents
"In respect of several such cases, the recruitment and placement service (RPS) companies, through which the concerned seafarers were recruited, are presently either under suspension or their [licenses] have been withdrawn/ceased to be valid," the agency explained. "Obtaining updated information and records from the concerned RPS companies has, in several cases, have been inadvertently found to be restricted and limited."
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The list spans cases from 2013-2024. By far the largest on the list is the dual explosion and fire aboard the LPG carriers Candy and Maestro in the Kerch Strait in January 2019. The two vessels were engaged in a ship-to-ship transfer when a blast occurred, and their cargo tanks took more than a month to fully burn out. Out of 32 crewmembers on the two vessels, 20 were killed or left missing. The ministry is still seeking information on six Indian seafarers killed and six others unaccounted-for in connection with the severe double casualty. The case is still in litigation in a Russian court.
The casualties on the list are clustered in the Mideast / Arabian Gulf and in Malaysia, reflecting regional patterns of seafarer employment. All vessel classes are represented on the list, with higher numbers involving freighters and tugs.
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