Traders at Odds With China Import Ban Keep Coal Cargoes in Limbo

  • Requests to move Jag Anand to swap crew rejected: Cargill
  • An estimated 1,480 seafarers are stuck at sea, some for months

Photographer: Wang Jianmin/VCG via Getty Images

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Seafarers stuck for months on vessels carrying Australian coal off China’s coast are trapped between authorities who won’t let them unload their cargoes and buyers who won’t let them leave.