Dahe News Yu video reporter Chen Man
On January 15, a shipwreck occurred in the waters near the port of Jeddah in Maoming, Guangdong Province. A dredging boat was suspected of hitting the reef, the cabin was flooded, and the crew on board was transferred in time, and there were no casualties. The crew told the video of the Big River Newspaper Yu about the terrifying moment of the sea escape, saying that "I am almost scared to death." As of now, there is no official response to information on the salvage of the vessel.
The cabin was flooded, and more than 20 people escaped urgently
"At 7 a.m. on January 15, I was still sleeping when I heard someone outside shouting, 'Hurry up.'" On January 20, Xiao Jin (not his real name) recalled what happened on the 1 ship of Jin Dong haijun and still felt afraid. Xiao Jin was a crew member of the ship, and it was his rest time at the time of the incident, and he heard the call that the cabin was leaking from the other crew members. Because he planned to go home, Xiao Jin packed his luggage in advance, took the luggage xiao Jin and boarded the transferred fishing boat.
The video at the scene shows that the ship was a dredging boat, the length of the ship was about 100 meters, the stern of the ship had sunk into the sea, and the hull at the bow was printed with the words "Jin Donghai Jun 1". In another video, the hull of the ship sinks almost entirely into the sea.
"There happened to be a fishing boat nearby and we took a flashlight and a mobile phone to look at them. When the fishing boat came to move us, I saw that the boat's butt had sunk. Xiao Jin said that he took his things and ran outside, the stern of the ship had sunk, and the whole process took less than 10 minutes.
According to Xiao Jin, there were more than 20 people on the boat at that time, the fishing boat rushed to take away some of the personnel, the fishing boat could not pull so many people, the rest of the people stayed on the fence where the fishermen raised fish, and then the company's boat drove them all ashore, and it was about 8 o'clock when they came ashore. As for the cause of the shipwreck, Xiao Jin learned from the other crew that it hit the reef and the water leakage in the cabin could not be blocked.
For the shipwreck incident, the Maoming Maritime Bureau was contacted by a reporter from Dahe Baoyu Video, and a staff member said that the incident did not cause casualties or fuel leakage. For the cause of the shipwreck, the rescue situation of the vessel, the other party said that they were not in their scope of work.
The ship sank, and the job was unpaid
The ship sank, the equivalent of work was gone, the other crew members and sailors were frightened and went home, and Xiaojin still stayed in the company's project department for 3 days. "The company still owes me 3 and a half months' salary, a total of 86,000 yuan." On July 24, 2021, Xiaojin was introduced to Guangdong Jindonghai Dredging Engineering Co., Ltd. through an intermediary to board a ship for 25,000 yuan per month. Xiao Jin said that on the day of the shipwreck, he had worked for more than 4 months in total, but only paid a month's salary. "Until now, only the salary for November has been paid. [This month] was sent out by our response to the Labour Inspection Brigade. We keep pushing [them] to say, 'The company has no money.'" Xiao Jin was worried that he could not go home for the New Year due to the epidemic, and after 3 days he left Maoming and returned to his hometown in Shandong.
In addition to Xiao Jin, there were more than twenty crew members and sailors who had not received wages. A sailor sailed a few months earlier than Xiaojin, and his salary for the first few months was normal, and his salary from September last year to January this year was only paid for November 2021.
The reporter of Dahe Newspaper Yu yu contacted Ma Qiming, the person in charge of Xiaojin's boat, but did not reply to the salary problem and the boat rescue problem.
On January 20, the Dahe Bao Yu video reporter contacted the Labor Inspection Brigade of the Maoming Emergency Management Bureau, and a staff member said that he had received Xiaojin's response, "We suggested that he file a case, but part of his salary occurred in Jiangmen, and he wanted to file a case on both sides, he was unwilling to run at both ends, and planned to go to the court to prosecute."
According to Tianyan, Guangdong Jindonghai Dredging Engineering Co., Ltd. was established in July 2010 with a registered capital of 20 million yuan, mainly undertaking the construction of various waterway projects, dredging and blowing land reclamation (including cofferdams). The reporter tried to call the company's reserved corporate phone, but no one answered. In terms of judicial risks, the company had more than 20 cases involving labor disputes involving crew members in 2019 and 2020.
In the end, XiaoJin hopes to get a salary a few years ago.
Source: Dahe News Yu Video Editor: Zhang Geliang