Ship
Zhong Ju 365
Ship
Zhong Ju 365
Previously named Han Rong 365, 汉荣365
Ship Details
- IMO
- 9886914
- MMSI
- 412410056
- Call Sign
- BZW4I
- Gear
- Liners
- Status
- Active
Operator: Zhoushan Zhongju Ocean Fisheries Company Limited
Crimes & Concerns
- Labor & Human Rights
The Zhong Ju 365 is directly associated with labor & human rights issues such as forced labor, worker death, and beriberi symptoms.
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- Summary of crew member deaths and potential beriberi cases
- The Zhong Ju 365 is associated with at least one crew member death and at least one potential beriberi case, including at least one potential beriberi death.
- Labor & Human Rights
- An Indonesian worker onboard the Zhong Ju 365, while named the Han Rong 365 and owned by Zhejiang Hanrong Ocean, reported the vessel to the Indonesian Migrant Workers Union between May 2019 and June 2020\. The ship was a Chinese purse seiner operating in the Arabian Sea. The fisher reported that although his contract stated he was working on the Han Rong 365, he was initially transferred to another Chinese vessel at sea, the Fu Yuan Yu 057. He worked there for at least two weeks before being transferred.
The worker described his experience and many of the problems he faced, which matched categories that the International Labour Organization, the UN agency for workers’ rights, say are indicators of forced labor. These included: abuse of vulnerability, physical violence, intimidation and threats, and abusive working conditions. His testimony was published in a 2021 Greenpeace report.
In Before You Eat, a movie released in Indonesia in 2022, an Indonesian crew member named Jimi described beriberi, death, wage withholding, and forced labor on the Han Rong 365. Jimi said that his friend Wendi Setia Pratama suffered from swollen legs, which he massaged. The captain gave Pratama medicine, but they didn't know what it was. Pratama forced himself to work in the hold but became short of breath, his arms cramping, so the Indonesian crew took him outside on deck and gave him oxygen. The captain refused to dock because, he said, the ship didn't have an IMO. When the crew insisted on getting Pratama medical care, the captain said they would try to dock in Sri Lanka or Oman, but Pratama died within the week from beriberi, in November 2020, according to Jimi.