DoT commits to repatriation of SA seafarers

The Department of Transport has committed to repatriating the many South African seafarers still stranded overseas.

Minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula, said the department had helped hundreds of South African seafarers caught up in the Covid-19 pandemic while in service on cruise liners across world to return.

However, there were still as many as 130 others abroad in countries such Brazil, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Ghana.