Stem Shipping president awards the captain of Magic Seas

In a symbolic gesture, Stem Shipping and the company’s president, Michalis Bodouroglou, awarded the skipper of the bulk bearer Magic Seas, which was attacked with missiles and torpedoes by the Houthis successful the Red Sea.

He congratulated skipper Mihai Staicu for his courageousness and for the enactment qualities helium demonstrated, successful bid to ultimately prevention his crew, earlier the Houthis boarded and ultimately blew it up, successful a mounting that referred to a Hollywood movie.

As Bodouroglu said, the vessel was attacked, contempt the information that it was not destined for Israel. The Houthis assertion that they are attacking a vessel carrying cargo to oregon from Israel. Its travel began successful China, reached South Korea, and was destined for Turkey.

Critical role

The grant of the captain, by the institution where helium has been working steadily for a decade, highlighted, among different things, the relation that seamen play arsenic “key workers” for society and the economy. A relation that is often not recognized, with a premier illustration during the pandemic, when dozens of sailors were unable to instrumentality to their state and remained connected ships for much than 18 months.

In his statement, Bodouroglou said that the vessel had been warring for 8 hours to flight the Houthis and that the nearest warship was astir a time and a fractional away.
He besides noted that contempt the information that communications had been chopped disconnected owed to the occurrence they had received, the satellite-based wi-fi transportation gave the unit the accidental to person changeless interaction with the mainland.