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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Hundreds of Greek seamen unpaid for months

In this photo taken on Friday, March 1, 2013, an unpaid crewman looks out of a ferry's side door into the main Greek port of Piraeus. With the financial crisis hitting Greek coastal shipping hard, hundreds of crewmen for ferries have gone unpaid for months. Many end up living on board the ships while they wait to get paid. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)DRAPETSONA, Greece (AP) — In rain and shrieking wind, the ferry strains at its ropes, the gangplank creaking and scraping against the pier. A sailor on night watch duty huddles over a portable heater at the entrance to the cavernous hull.



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