Pakistan’s Naval Chief Sunday ordered to transfer the 22 crew members of MV Suez to a Pakistani warship when the Egyptian merchant ferry, which was recently released by Somali pirates, began to sink in the Arabian Sea, the News Tribe reported.
MV Suez was bound for the Omani port of Salalah when she ran out of fuel and began taking on water in stormy weather.
After getting a distress call from the sinking ship, Pakistan Navy chief Admiral Noman Bashir ordered to shift the vessel’s crew members to PNS Babar, which was escorting it.
The Egyptian owners of the MV Suez had abandoned its crew and the vessel.
Pakistan Navy sources said that it was yet to be decided whether the crew-member would be brought to Karachi or Gwadar port in Pakistan.
Captain Syed Wasi Hasan of MV Suez said that the weather had turned threatening due to the monsoons.
Pakistan and India have exchanged angry charges over an incident allegedly involving PNS Babar and the Indian warship INS Godavari.
MV Suez was bound for the Omani port of Salalah when she ran out of fuel and began taking on water in stormy weather.
After getting a distress call from the sinking ship, Pakistan Navy chief Admiral Noman Bashir ordered to shift the vessel’s crew members to PNS Babar, which was escorting it.
The Egyptian owners of the MV Suez had abandoned its crew and the vessel.
Pakistan Navy sources said that it was yet to be decided whether the crew-member would be brought to Karachi or Gwadar port in Pakistan.
Captain Syed Wasi Hasan of MV Suez said that the weather had turned threatening due to the monsoons.
Pakistan and India have exchanged angry charges over an incident allegedly involving PNS Babar and the Indian warship INS Godavari.